Hey, lol. We don't have five senses. I think the last agreement in science is 21. You know 5 but may add, perception of... feelings, heat, your own body situation, etc. and you could add (out of science yet) clairvoidance, telepathy, etc.
If reality is defined "what is tangible" then you're feelings are not real, for instance. You can percept your own thoughts, that's another sense. You can hear them without having any sound.
If we defined reality like anything outside of your body... then your body is not real, lol... What sense alerts you when your stomach aches.... that's introperception. Is the stomach real?... I would forget that definition...
And the end it doesn't matter if something's real or not... It's all what's on your mind that's real for you.
Is it America real for me? Well... it's a concept for me. It's not tangible for me now. Now it exists. But if I started denying their existence it would not exist for me, you know. For some people Antartica just doesn't exist!. Because they don't know about their existence, like some distant stars or planet we haven't seen, did they exist? Yes. We know them? no. lol... so what? what is tangible depends of the power of observation. Electrons are not tangible but they exist. One thing can only happen in your mind with theories and such, and be proven to be real.
What we call Reality is a metaphor or your mind reality. What's real is your mind, not the reality. "I think therefore I exist". Electrons wouldn't be accepted as "real" without any theory made for someone's mind. Like some senses, are they "real"?
If reality is the "physical world", how do a person can shape up his muscles without any physical world weight. Just with "unreal" weights. It should be a "unreal" muscle.
Nothing is unreal, if there was real it would be a thing. So future is real, possibilites are real, dreams are real, because they are "things". They influence the physical world, so they got to be real, how something called "unreal" (just mere thoughts without actions) should influence something real???
Or maybe the opposite. "Nothing is real""it's all in your mind", the Beatle way.
or "Everything is real, what's on your mind too"
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