MALLEABILITY OF REALITY ?

A PHILOSOPHIC REVIEW

When we consider “reality”, we generally think of a permanent condition, that there must be only one state of reality that is not changeable. The idea of a possible changeable reality is discomforting. It raises the question of what do we know, what can we rely upon as real?

Can that which this moment we consider to be real change configuration and therefore meaning? If so, what can we accept as real when we must allow for this real moment to change to something different. Was that past moment real, or just a mistaken perception.

If what we know or believe to be real can change, the ground under our conscious mind is shiftable, leaving us feeling very unstable and apprehensive.

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Again, can that which seems verifiably “real” morph into a very different, new reality? We must become comfortable with the fact that our perceptions do change with our current context, and therefore our views of reality also change.

Examples of the metamorphosis of reality:

Day changes into night.

Strangers become friends.

Seasons change.

Past perceptions of all that seems real change change.

That which is “known” becomes “unknown”.

The apparent configuration of objects may change as our perspective changes, but that may be only a change of perspective, not necessarily a physical change…