Reality

What is reality anyway? Is there a reality beyond my reality and your reality? Suppose we sit down to talk and discover that our realities are different. Draw the Venn diagram of our intersecting realities. Now throw in the realities of another person, another million persons, another billion persons, even seven billion persons. What does the Venn diagram of that picture look like?

I think reality is a big cluster of delusions held together by some sticky bits of “real” reality like the hydrogen atom. We get by by picking our delusions, calling them reality and holding on to them until they fail us and we get rid of them. We replace the jettisoned ones by others and keep on truckin’. Or somehow we can’t jettison them and we just sink.