Reality - Alex’s Answer
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Reality is a really ambiguous statement. I’m going to say that one needs acknowledgment to exist… unless they aren’t acknowledged. That may not make sense, but that is my exact problem with reality. One doesn’t feel meaningful without acknowledgment, but is that to say they don’t exist? One absolutely needs a counterpoint, but that counterpoint may not necessarily be capable of acknowledgment. Nature in the absence of mankind is absolutely real, and is capable of “self acknowledgment”. One must have acknowledgment to exist. However, if one were alone, nature could fill the void of counterpart, thereby validating one’s existence.
Without nature’ s ability to validate existence, one could argue that nothing was real. On the cosmic scheme of things there is always a bigger fish, per se. Without nature’s ability to do this it is arguable that mankind exists, because we can acknowledge each other, but alien life wouldn’t exist until we discovered it. Nature gives all life the ability to exist. That is why mankind’s general pattern of trying to conquer nature is a bit frightening.
Does this make mankind less and less real as time goes on? Despite what I just argued I think it does not, simply due to the fact that we still acknowledge each other and the acknowledgment of nature becomes somewhat moot with this interaction. However there is nothing larger to acknowledge mankind as a whole and that is what I think the problem. Even though peoples’ lives have equal, or arguably greater meaning and acknowledgment among each other, mankind as a whole is becoming less and less real… at least cosmically.
This is similar to the idea in physics that you can’t measure the speed of a particle, and know exactly where it is at the same time. Say somewhere down the line mankind disappears for some reason or another, does that mean we never existed. Normally I’d say no, but with our attempts at besting nature maybe. We aren’t around to acknowledge each other, and eventually it wouldn’t be possible for any outside force to prove we did exist. Normally that wouldn’t erase millions of years of “existence”, but this conflict with nature makes me wonder. Without nature, what is our counterpoint?
