Reality isn't just "out there", like some block of cement: reality is an interpretation. In a sense we co-create our reality. Yann Martel in an interview.
What a load of nonsense.
Drivel like this is the core of the problem. I really find it hard to see how anyone can take this stuff seriously. we co-create our reality. What on earth can this mean in proper English. I have no idea. I can only think that Martel is using a completely different language where all the words mean non-standard things. According to my dictionary reality is existence that is absolute, self-sufficient, or objective, and not subject to human decisions or conventions. It is just "out there" like some block of cement. A block of cement doesn't rely on an interpretation, it is what it is. Of course, the block can be useful to humans in different ways, being part of a structure, or a work of art, or even as a weapon. But it is still a block of cement however it is used or viewed. There has to be an object to be interpreted. That object is the block of cement as it exists in reality.
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