Saturday, September 08, 2007

Illusion or Reality?

Are there such things as illusion and reality? Or are they two different ways of looking at one side of a coin? If so, what's the other side?

4 comments:

Kenshin_Himura said...

Well, this, again, relates to the Allegory of the Cave.
It can be said that the people within the cave are in an illusion, away from the outside world, yet by their own interpretation, they could be in reality...

Another example of this is the Matrix. The people within the Matrix believe it is just reality, yet those outside of it say they are in an ilusion.

Using both of those examples as base cases, logically it goes that the difference between an illusion and reality is based on where people stand. If people are outside the illusion, they can say what reality actually is. However, if everyone is in the illusion, the illusion is accepted as reality, at least, until someone escapes from it.

ethan_is_ninja said...

To put it simply, to some people, truth is an illusion and to others, illusion is truth. For example, you can refuse to believe what we have learned in TOK so far (which is truth) and this refusal to believe is believing in illusion, which to you is truth. If I go into any more depth and detail, this will become very confusing.

katrina337 said...

My question is how this differs from our discussion during Allegory of the Cave?

Stitches said...

It doesn't really, i just figured i'd put it out there to maybe continue the discussion if anyone was interested.