Wednesday, October 22, 2014

What Einstein meant when he said, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

20th century science demonstrated conclusively that space, time, energy and matter all operate in ways that are profoundly counterintuitive to the human mind. Our perceived reality bears little resemblance to the outright weirdness that is the quantum world. We are just monkeys with a mind that evolved to solve monkey problems.

He was referencing the idea that it is impossible to prove that anything exists other than what's in your mind. So, reality can be viewed as only what is in your mind - which can be viewed as an illusion.

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