Perception vs Reality

This cluster debates the philosophical distinction between objective reality and subjective perceptions, questioning how individuals conceptualize and access true reality amid illusions, biases, and differing worldviews.

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IS HN LLM reality perception world consciousness real vat objective illusion experience experiences

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ColanR Jun 25, 2020 View on HN

how they think the world is != objective reality

Chris2048 May 9, 2016 View on HN

It seems we're talking about perception here, so what is the 'reality'?

mistermann Mar 21, 2021 View on HN

It's fascinating how different people conceptualize reality.

rafaelero Jun 2, 2025 View on HN

Maybe it's your understanding of reality that it's flawed.

ttymck Jan 11, 2023 View on HN

The subjective nature of reality disagrees with you, sorry.

bantheads Nov 26, 2019 View on HN

How do you know reality is not just an illusion?

jart Sep 1, 2024 View on HN

You don't understand anything about reality. For all you know, you're living in Plato's cave. What you kind of know, is just text you read from a physics book. The things your eyes see, could just as easily be encoded as tokens and fed into an LLM.

SlySherZ Oct 6, 2022 View on HN

There's a common way people from scientific communities (such as HN) look at the world - there's a "real world" out there, and in order to improve our understanding of things we should approximate (discover the rules that govern) this real world and try to minimize our subjective experiences as much as possible. I fully subscribe to this view, the real world has to be same for everyone, right?But there's another way to look at things which is prevalent in other circle

mistermann Oct 10, 2021 View on HN

If people didn't imagine their own reality, what then are they to believe? "Real" reality? Which one?

homulilly Oct 27, 2015 View on HN

There's no such thing as true reality since even the idea of reality is part of our survival mechanism.