5 posts tagged with perception and reality (View popular tags)

I am looking for writings on the infinity of definition. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 32 answers

"A human is halfway in size between an atom and the known universe"... This is a paraphrased quote I have come across several times. I like it. Who said it first? How true is it in the most literal sense? And, finally, what errors arrive in postulating a universe, or an atom, which can be measured AT ALL from our singular, relativistic, perspective? [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2007 - 14 answers

Why did consciousness evolve? [more inside]
posted on Jan 25, 2006 - 39 answers

Inspired by this question, I have to ask the opposite. I've found that as I've gotten older, things in the past seem VERY VERY far away. [more inside]
posted on Sep 16, 2005 - 10 answers

Why is time passing so quickly? [more inside]
posted on Sep 15, 2005 - 37 answers