Invention: Reality Goggles

December 10th, 2006

Reality is pretty cool, right? Probably, but how would you know? Sadly, all of our observations of reality are filtered through our various senses. Not that I don’t love senses. Senses let my brain know what’s going on. My brain – you know, the thing that uses my body like a marionette to move itself from place to place, loves food and sex and needs a way to find these things as efficiently as possible. If we didn’t need food and sex then we wouldn’t need to see, smell, hear, taste, or feel. The reason we don’t have a 6th sense is that it wouldn’t help us get more food or sex. Sorry, dead people.

You might think being human is pretty special. We have special brains, but the rest of us is very run of the mill. Take our eye-sight for example. We can’t see very far away or very close-up. We can’t see infrared, like mosquito’s can. The ‘visual’ part is only a tiny section of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. In fact, if we had better vision we could also see ultra-violet, microwave, x-ray, gamma, radar, FM, shortwave, AM, etc. Seeing radio would be pretty cool, but probably very confusing – but, even more importantly it wouldn’t even help us find more food or sex.

Depressingly, we will never have any idea what reality is really like, because by definition, reality is the totality of existence, sans our experience of it. Reality is all of the stuff that exists, doing whatever it is it’s doing and has been doing, for all of eternity.

But, what if there was a special pair of goggles that allowed you to see things the way they really are?


4 Responses to “Invention: Reality Goggles”

  1. wil on December 11, 2006 11:03 am

    reality goggles would just create sensory overload.

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