I’m sure he’s about to bring up the state approved haircuts (You can comb my hair) and the warrantless strip searches (undress me everywhere) along with getting in line with the state (let’s go, party).
“Of course it’s all in your head, Harry, but who’s to say it isn’t real?” - Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore
I have a theory that reality and worlds are objective. For example, two people can look at the same item and see different things. Everyone’s worldview is a current perception based on their experiences, and what stories they’ve acquired defines what kind of stories they see in, say, a statue of a cat. Person one may have fond memories of felines and see the statue as a wonderful symbolism of pride and agility. Person two may just see a statue, cold and disrespecting to the nature of a warm-blooded animal. The statue is in the shared reality. The idea of the statue for both people are both real, both true, but not shared. Thus, two realities.
For an optimist, their world is pretty and full of opportunity. For a pessimist, their world is a blend of grey and full of cruelty. Both worlds are real, but only in the view of the individual. Experiences shape perception. Perception shapes shared reality into an individual reality.
Take someone who has hallucinations of creatures imposed on the shared reality by their mind. To them, the hallucinations happen. They are, for them, real and they interact with, react to, the visions regardless of whether they are in the shared world. But whether they are part of the person’s world depends on if they perceive the hallucinations as real.
What is real? Is it the idea of something that is shared between worldviews? Or is it explicitly a tangible, physically interactive something?
Thus, Barbie’s world may be a view of our (shared) reality, or it may be entirely fictional, but it is definitely real, down to the sentient nutcracker.
I often view works of fiction as alternate realities, meaning their worlds are real, their stories are now really in our world, but they are stories of a reality as imagined by an author and therefore every novel, motion picture and photo album is a replay of an event the author experienced, a privileged view through a portal into another individual reality.
I know I’m not the only one to theorise on this, as proven by Phil Collins’ Two Worlds, referring to the worldview shared by members of the human colony and the other worldview shared by the predominantly gorilla colony in the movie Tarzan.
Terrified that sounds so on point.
Not nearly enough devotion to the state on Garak’s part…
I’m sure he’s about to bring up the state approved haircuts (You can comb my hair) and the warrantless strip searches (undress me everywhere) along with getting in line with the state (let’s go, party).
“Of course it’s all in your head, Harry, but who’s to say it isn’t real?” - Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore
I have a theory that reality and worlds are objective. For example, two people can look at the same item and see different things. Everyone’s worldview is a current perception based on their experiences, and what stories they’ve acquired defines what kind of stories they see in, say, a statue of a cat. Person one may have fond memories of felines and see the statue as a wonderful symbolism of pride and agility. Person two may just see a statue, cold and disrespecting to the nature of a warm-blooded animal. The statue is in the shared reality. The idea of the statue for both people are both real, both true, but not shared. Thus, two realities.
For an optimist, their world is pretty and full of opportunity. For a pessimist, their world is a blend of grey and full of cruelty. Both worlds are real, but only in the view of the individual. Experiences shape perception. Perception shapes shared reality into an individual reality.
Take someone who has hallucinations of creatures imposed on the shared reality by their mind. To them, the hallucinations happen. They are, for them, real and they interact with, react to, the visions regardless of whether they are in the shared world. But whether they are part of the person’s world depends on if they perceive the hallucinations as real.
What is real? Is it the idea of something that is shared between worldviews? Or is it explicitly a tangible, physically interactive something?
Thus, Barbie’s world may be a view of our (shared) reality, or it may be entirely fictional, but it is definitely real, down to the sentient nutcracker.
I often view works of fiction as alternate realities, meaning their worlds are real, their stories are now really in our world, but they are stories of a reality as imagined by an author and therefore every novel, motion picture and photo album is a replay of an event the author experienced, a privileged view through a portal into another individual reality.
I know I’m not the only one to theorise on this, as proven by Phil Collins’ Two Worlds, referring to the worldview shared by members of the human colony and the other worldview shared by the predominantly gorilla colony in the movie Tarzan.