It is difficult and challenging to believe that most of what we see is not what, from an Absolute Reality perspective, it is.

I want to express the idea or argument that all we perceive results from our senses' capabilities and limitations. Now, the limitation of our senses may result from necessary adjustment by evolutionary and natural forces, but never the less necessary forces.

What I mean is that we do not truly perceive everything that surrounds us and that what we perceive as Reality is not the complete "picture". Trying to perceive everything around us would be impossible and overwhelming.

Of course, this is understandable and obvious. If we perceived every minute detail of what surrounds us, we would certainly overwhelm our sensory system due to the amount of perceivable information that could expand to, possibly, an infinite number.

Our senses limit us, but some could argue that our senses have evolved to perceive and chanel to our brain and mind the stimuli relevant to our survival. This simple concept would explain what we perceive is what we need to perceive. What is meaningful to us and important for our survival. Just the necessary, the important, and the relevant basic information.

But out of even what we perceive, I will argue that we still put our senses' input through a series of filters before the senses present the information to our conscious mind. Then, we change what we perceive even further by parsing the information through more filters that comprise previous experiences, the current knowledge we hold, and the formulation of what we believe to be true, false, or meaningful.

Our past experiences will shape our understanding and reactions to everything that presents to our conscious and unconscious. A negative past experience that matches the present patterns presented to our mind will trigger an adverse reaction. We can say the same about a past positive experience. Therefore, it is challenging to be truly objective when looking at what I will call Absolute Reality (AR). This means that we have a challenging situation if we try to train our minds to not necessarily "jump" to a conclusion and judge the current situation by comparing it to a past one. After all, this mechanism has evolved to be of help to us, to keep us alive.

Remember, the idea is that what we perceive is not the Absolute or "true" reality. What we consciously perceive is a manufactured or put-together image or interpretation; it is our version of Absolute Reality. In contrast, we could also argue that Absolute Reality exists and is always true in an Absoute sense and meaning. If something is (or exists), then it is true in the purest of senses.

In short, Absolute Reality is the Reality or state of things as such, without the intervention, interpretation, Consciousness, or any other parsing or filtering media or process that observes it to find or adjudicate meaning.

Now that we defined Absolute Reality, we can expand various ideas to understand our perceptions and biases better. We can look at how we over-impose layers of interpretation to the raw data our brain receives from our senses. These layers will add or subtract meaning from the Reality we perceive.

The practical use of this information would be the utilization of the notion that we can "bend" Reality by reframing the way we think, effectively changing the way we parse the information. For example, if we consciously try to parse our perception thru "positive" filters, we can change the context of the experience, tilting Reality to a more positive state or quality. One person that captured this idea swiftly is Wayne Dyer in one of his famous quotes:

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
Wayne Dyer

This concept or idea is not that new. More than two thousand years ago, Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and philosopher, and as part of his famous Meditations wrote:

" Do not say more to yourself than first impressions report. You have been told that someone speaks evil of you. This is what you have been told; you have not been told that you are injured. I see that the little child is ill; this is what I see, but that he is in danger I do not see. In this way, then always abide by the first impression and add nothing of your own from within, and that’s an end of it; or rather one thought you might add, as one who is acquainted with every change and chance of the world."
Marcus Aurelius

Thru this contemplation, Marcus Aurelius encourages us to refrain from adding our biases and judgment to things that we perceive. In this case, the things we hear. He tells us to stop and take what presents itself to our senses and add nothing to it. To analyze it as is and refrain from adding meaning or conclusions that are not in the initial message.

Then, you can say that Marcus Aurelius' observation is at odds with what Wayne Dyer advises us to do to have a better outcome. One tells us never to add or subtract to the Reality we perceive, and the other tells us to change the filters so that the Reality we perceive is more favorable. Who is right? Well, We will discuss this further in this page: In search of the truth.

Prejudgment and biases may have a space in which to exist and make sense. They may save us time and effort when understanding Reality. Otherwise, they would be part of our capabilities. Unfortunately, these evolutionary tools may now work against us when our subconscious wrongly uses them when interpreting Reality. But I will argue that our times have become poisoned with information manipulation. Now more than ever, we need to stop and think carefully about what is presented before our judgment and try to use objectivity as much as possible to navigate Reality transparently. I believe that objectivity, reasoning, discourse, and empirical understanding can overcome prejudgement and biases contrary to reason and truth.

Because Absolute Reality does not need us (consciousness users) to be true, it is, as such, the absolute truth. But we do not live in Absolute Reality because we are trapped in our own fabrication of a conscious reality tinted with judgment, biases, and prejudices. That is without considering that our senses are NOT feeding us the whole Reality, but just a limited version. In other words, we are coursed by the most beautiful evolutionary invention: the Human Consciousness and all its imperfections but never the less probably the most advanced natural creation. Like a great symphony out of the mind of a genius composer, human Consciousness is the maximum expression of cosmic matter born out of stardust once trapped in the guts of distant stars that, at death, exploded violently to disperse its simple but fundamental content out to the vastness of the universe. We are children of stars (literally) endowed with the magical power of imagination, capable of creating whole universes outside of time and space and bending Reality to make sense of it. Just like Carl Sagan eloquently puts it:

" We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, Consciousness arose."
Carl Sagan

Merrian-Webster.com defines Absolute Reality as: “ultimate Reality as it is in itself unaffected by the perception or knowledge of any finite being." "Absolute reality." Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absolute%20reality. Accessed 21 Feb. 2018.