Understanding correlates with meaning -- that is understanding involves search for meaning, and we have only understood things when we've made them meaningful. In the 'natural attitude', we gain understanding of the world by interpreting our lived experiences of it. We attempt to understand the other in several ways. What do you think?
I share the opinion of @Marcel and @Mahfuz! Our perception is a series of images!
The power of imagination is amazing, here is the story!
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/11/health/enayati-power-perceptions-imagination/
We do not observe the real world. The human perception system is like a camera taking pictures. How the pictures are perceived and stored will depend on the components of the machinery used and where the perception machine is situated.
The world we see is not the real world, but it is as we perceive it.
I share the opinion of @Marcel and @Mahfuz! Our perception is a series of images!
The power of imagination is amazing, here is the story!
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/11/health/enayati-power-perceptions-imagination/
There is nothing more comprehensible than getting experience in Life...
It may take time and everyone may not get exposed to 'all / most of' the leanings of life
I think that we are living our real lives; the imaginary part is what we wish and imagine.
The real world is what we see and interprete. But we can not be sure, not to miss some observations and interpretations. If we can´t see, our real world is without light, if we can´t hear, our real world is without sound. The problem with this question is the term real. Shall real be, what some of us, possibly by using detectors, can prove?
Quite intelligent question for all of us. I agree with all the above contributors. I see beautiful remarks especially from @Marcel M. Lambrechts & @Ljubomir Jacić, @Krishnan Umachandran, @Abedallah M Rababah and @Hanno Krieger.
I believe, every one of us has a specific lens through which s/he sees the world. Therefore, we may miss understanding the world from certain angles. Hence, it is important to study about others experiences in order to complement our understanding of the world.
Unfortunately what we see is actually transposed into our understanding based on our thinking, prejudices and what we want to see. It is rare that people will be able to see the clear truth as plain information.
We do not see the world as it is, but as we want it to be.
Our vision of what is going on around us,linked to who we are and what we want from the world around us. Our brain focus only on what we want, numerous experiments have confirmed this point, perhaps the best known, the experiment called "The monkey businesse illusion".
It is interpreted through own personal & subjective scheme of things. Our belief structure determines our perception which then ultimately determines how we interpret, see and respond to events.
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are” – Talmud
A mischievous Italian proverb says: The law applies to the enemies, it is interpreted to friends. That says a lot about the problem of the meaning of what we see around us.
I agree with you dear @Ierardi, There is no fixed meaning; only Mathematics is exact.
The world in terms of what we are seeing is what the reality of the world, actions of human beings, which need not necessarily be the true and correct functioning of what our existence and the world should be. We are seeing the results of actions of humans through their misunderstanding and thereby wrong interpretations of what the truth of things should be - far from the real world or the truth of what the real world should be.
If you let people ( or decided by themselves ) of no knowledge and correct understanding of numbers and their properties, do mathematics on the set of real numbers, imagine what they will do and what they will impose on others as to what they have to do and what they have to get. They may think that positive integers are the only real numbers, or the notion of fractions may not be known or done weirdly, etc.
Those who know about numbers and their properties have to simply watch what these people are doing themselves and impose on others regarding numbers. It is not difficult to imagine what damage they will do on the field of mathematics it self and what kind of knowledge they have and impose on others to have, in the community of theirs.
I will say, the should be truth of the world ( or the real world ) in the contrary is therefore something which is far from what is the reality of the world today.
There are many kinds of war; with weapens, with chemicals, with oil, with water, the cold wars and the wars of the mathematics; they are all real.,
Yes indeed dear @Jose, Mathematics is also a human construct, but made exact.
I agree with you dear @Rita, wars are caused by the same resource.
really pathetic to see the news casts nowadays....Real world is 'built out' from imagination.
Wish the future generations dream of a space equal for everyone free from any demarcations and borders...
Dear @Jose, I think what Einstein expressed is related to applications of Mathematics in Physics. Mathematical statements are 100% exact. A Mathematical statement is either true or false.
Dear Abedallah,
What is 'exact' in mathematics is not necessarily 'exact' in the real world, accepting human-made Math provides a simplified picture of a biased vision of the world
Exact is abstract concept and even in Mathematics, it is not possible to have exact vision for every thing in the world.
The more mental images we create according to our needs, the more inflation we cause into the real wold. Mental images are easy to manipulate and to present them as real. A lot of reality is oppressed and lives in the dark region of the unconscious and dreams.
Most of what we can observe is the real world but there are differences in interpretation of what is perceived. The differences are natural & ought not to be looked at as negativities all the time.
The most complicated “natural product” is the human for the embedded capacity to pretend so the “real” may appear as “unreal”, and vice versa. Other creatures lack the ability for a “good cover-up” so in almost all cases, the real from them is real as observed by us!
It is all in the "eye of the beholder" and how they utilize the opportunities to best and benefit to all around them.
Situational control and scenario handling specifies the ever changing Market dynamics and hence in the economy driven world, " it is Optimization of resources and Maximization of results in any particular given situation".
There is No such real world or in other words one without vagaries, postulates and approximations.
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