How big is reality?

[Portland Ute]

I must have been in China in Feb 2012.

In my opinion, what we perceive as reality isn't even close to reality. The sum total of truth is reality, and we know nothing compared to what is possible to know - Woot explains it better - so it's impossible for us to be fully aware of everything.

Unless -

We live in billions of dimensions, and live out the consequences of every alternative choice that is possible before us. If in those dimensions we learn how to love one another, and generally how "things" work, and when we die, our combined experiences as one unique individual are compiled into one data source of personage, we might be on a good start to becoming like God. We would be omniscient because we know the consequences of every decision, we would be omnipotent because we would know all there is to know, and we would be omnipresent, because we can be in more than one place at the same time.

Worlds without End.

Every time you mention this multiple dimension thing, I think you'd be more at home in Joseph Smith's church than in Brigham Young's church.

[Northwestcoug]

In context of this discussion, is creativity/imagination considered part of "thought?"

If so, anytime any new aspect of reality is discovered, couldn't one just imagine a "cherry on top"? It seems like when any new reality is recognized or discovered, the creative human imagination could "think" of some way to twist or manipulate or add to it.

Imagination and creativity, as shown in art, are not limited to the rational or real or physical. Take those damned Escher stair drawings. You can draw them. You can imagine them. You can "think" them. But you cannot create them physically. They are not real. Except in the mind. In thought.

Harry Potter: Professor? Is this all real? Or is it just happening inside my head?

Dumbledore: Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry. Why should that mean that it's not real?

[clackamascoug]

Every time you mention this multiple dimension thing, I think you'd be more at home in Joseph Smith's church than in Brigham Young's church.

I'm holding out for Jesus' church. Joseph and Brigham were just men. I have to admit to liking my quote "the sum total of truth is reality."