Cloud castles and reality.

What is reality? 

Above this text is the image that portrays a castle that is above the clouds. What if we spend our entire life in that castle?  What kind of reality is to those fictional isolated characters?  If all contacts with the other world are stories that visitors tell?

The big question about the universe is, could there be other universes? And the big answer is that we don't know, and probably, we never will know about that thing. So multiverse, metaverse, and parallel universes are theories, nothing else than theories. Some people are saying that our universe is typical. This question causes another question about reality. 

There are two types of reality. 

1) Confirmed reality

2) Not confirmed reality

We live in a universe that is the only known universe in space. We don't have any single observations about other universes. And we can say that we are in the "typical universe" because we cannot see other universes.

The situation, in this case, is similar when we are thinking case, that we are living in one room our entire life. If creatures never see other rooms, we can think that all rooms are similar. We might think that all rooms in the world are similar. 

There are similar types of furniture, and everything is similar. If our creature lives in that castle without ever seeing another castle or house that creature would think that the castle is a typical way to live. 

Of course, people who come outside can say that creature lives in some special room. They might say that we have different furniture than other people.  Before we start handling our hypothetical creature, and this isolated room and space, we must realize one thing. 

What people say is not confirmed reality. There is the possibility that the creature asks things from different people. That thing is confirmation. Otherwise, all of those people or actors are members of the same system. And they might have orders on how to answer something. So even large groups of people are not always speaking the truth. 

Truth is a subjective thing. Some armed soldiers might say that city is a safe place. 

And some children can say. That the same place is not safe. The reason for that is that nobody dares to fight with armed people. 

Things like feelings are things that are not confirmed. And things like people's position in the hierarchy affect the service and treatment that person gets. And of course, people are telling stories about things like bad spirits to living in forests to keep people inside the city wall. In the same way, people who are living in our hypothetical cloud castle can think that the world below clouds is empty. 

The creature could sit in just a lonely room or castle. And listen to things. Or maybe we should think that the creature is ourselves. What if we meet only certain types of people? We might think that those people are typical. And every other people are similar to them. 

If we spend our entire life above the clouds. Many regular things are unknown to us. Things that are common at sea level are extraordinary above the cloud level. 

We can hear things like thunderstorms. We can see flashes of lightning. 

Or we can hear thunder and flashes. But we cannot see lightning itself through clouds. We see only light that the lightning sends. Maybe somebody tells that rain will make people wet. 

But we do have not any physical experience with those things if we ever come down through the cloud layer. We must know that there is a world below those clouds. But we have no physical observation about that thing we could only guess what the world looks like. 

We can go into that room and tell many things about cities. But the creature cannot confirm those things. 

Only personal experience that comes from all senses is the thing, that can confirm reality. 

If a creature (or we) just hears something. That thing causes inadequate observation. We can hear things, like a rustle in the wall, and there could be some creature like a mouse. But there could be some kind of twig that causes that sound.

Confirmation requires personal experience. If the experience is not coming from all senses the experience is inadequate. We need all our senses to confirm reality. 

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