The Perception of Reality.

A number of scientists and theologists have tried to bring a sense of perspective about the human mind and its workings. They have tried to bring about order to the number of thought processes going on in the wonder that is our brain. A number of said scientists have tried to use their magnanimous brains to try and make it understand itself. And along the way, as most experiments go, they stumbled upon a series of startling revelations.

These "startling revelations" created a window of doubt in the iron clad "Laws of Physics". Thus, from the workings of our brains, these scientists found that a number of alternative theories, namely Quantum Theories, had the scope to be proved in the understanding of the human brain. Now here is the body of work that most scientists consider the Judgment Day of Science as we know it. There are infinite possibilities in Quantum Mechanics and if we do try to look at everything at a Quantum level then all the theories and ideas imprinted in our minds from childhood science books counts for null. And there are a number of theories which I took a look at and have attempted to understand at some level. And this promises to be the first of various posts on the topic of breaking down science as we know it.

But let me take this post to a small but interesting theory which falls under the scheme of Quantum Mechanics. The theory concerns reality and parallel universes. Strap down your brain, open up your mind and give a listen. Scientists, physicists and philosophers have looked into the workings of the human mind and found that its capable of over 2 billion calculations per second. In reality we only use about 7000 of this capacity. The rest is being used to create unknown and unrealised thougt processes which we cannot even begin to fathom. Under this situation, through a series of expriments these people found that the human brain has the ability to project backwards and forwards in time(more about that later). And then they got a blurry idea of where the other calculations go. They go into creating alternate realities.

These alternate realities exist at every moment in our lives, and we make decisions every second that affect our selection of reality. There are a million alternate reactions to every small action we take which a normal human brain cannot look into. We consciously make decisions regarding which reality we wish to follow. As soon as we make that decision, what we want to perceive as reality becomes that reality. When we make this choice of reality and its perception, the other parallel realities cease to exist. There is a corollary which says there are means to contact and realise these parallel paths, but the human brain is still not so evolved as to do this effectively.

Now that all the boring science stuff is over, sit back and try to understand the impact of this on our lives. Try and fathom how much each of our actions affects the world around us. If you do a large decision try to go backwards and forwards in the time-space matrix and lookat the reactions, effects and possibilities of a different course of action. Reality is not ever-existent, the only reality is the one we choose to see, the one we choose to accept and live in. The definition of reality is quite literally the choice made by the human brain, and the ability of our less developed minds to perceive this comfortable reality.

Now we have scientific evidence backing our favourite theory that reality is just an illusion. Any relevance to the Matrix here?