The Realities of 'Reality' - Part I: It All Starts from Within

Abstract

If this year was the year 202018, meaning 200,000 years from now and I was writing about reality, where would I begin? What would be the basis that I would use for my arguments? Would I still be able to talk about philosophy, psychology, art, mathematics, chemistry, physics and quantum mechanics? Would I be able to talk about the brain and the mind the same way I do today? Would I be able to speculate about life and death? Would these topics still be relevant in the grand scheme of things? 200,000 years from now, would it still be necessary to speculate about reality anyway? Although the answers to such questions can be either ‘may be’ or ‘may be not’, one thing is certain: 200,000 years from now, humans, if we’re still around, will be different, so different that the disparity will be similar to an insect’s egg and the final stage of its metamorphosis: an imago, the larva and pupa stages being in between. Well, in terms of reality, when the first Homo Sapiens emerged 200,000 years ago, he had no idea what reality would be like today in 2018. His reality was limited to trying to survive in a harsh environment. He had to first learn how to make fire, gather, then grown his own food and hunt just to survive. Say our species is still around 200,000 years from now, what we are capable of in 2018, compared to what we will be capable of then is comparable to the first humans’ reality 200,000 years ago. The fact is, humans’ reality is not constant. It’s variable, fluid… This series looks at reality in different angles. It goes back and forth in time to explain the versatility of reality. Through the topics that I will discuss, I will attempt to explain why Man is still puzzled by reality after 200,000 years of existence.