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I guess humans are not capable of comprehending the reality. Is there an ultimate objective reality or is it turtles all the way down? Is it normal to wonder such things?
Completely normal, I have no idea myself if there is any objective truth.
I just think that many many years ago there were people that had no idea what the hell that circle in the sky at night was and before that people had no idea they were conscious.
Maybe somehow some day answers will come. But until them, they don't concern me, and I try not to let them worry me, cause then I get depressed and suicidal.
Jus live life and don't care
I think it's eerily fun to realise that all of the matter in the world is made of point particles, and as such an atom is about 99.9999999999999% empty space.
Look around you most of what you see is nothing.
Someone has been reading their Hawking. While I don't always agree with him, "turtles all the way down" is such a beautiful way of illustrating the nature of the problem of proof. It's also my feeling about reality. We live in a pocket of rough "understandableness". We may extend the pocket a little but it'll always be a pocket and can only ever be a pocket, and - moreover - a small pocket in a vasty deep of things we shall never know.
I like thinking about these things a lot. I like thinking up and reading different theories about reality and existence.
The ultimate level of reality is a universe so alien, so different from our own that if you ever enter it, you will go completely insane. It is the Far Realm.
The life we are living is in no way MY reality. When you dream thats reality.
Neuroscience tells us that that we don't see the reality itself but only a mental representation of the world & most of our lives/actions are controlled by our Unconscious Brain. Our conscious brain is only presented with a final representation of the world by the unconscious brain. All the processing stages of sensory information are invisible to our conscious brain. Also that our brains are inherently biased.
Human brain has not evolved for understanding the reality, but, it has evolved for survival through the process of natural selection.
Now scientist have theorized parallel universes multiverses & antiverse. & then there is the weird world of quantum mechanics. According to M-theory there are 11-dimensions although we can experience only 4-dimensions. Higher dimension contain higher levels of reality. Higher dimension contain geometries that are impossible in lower dimentions. And because we can't see higher dimensions we can't see reality.
Subatomic particle are made up of quarks. Quarks are made up of superstrings/membranes which are now considered the fundamental particles.
So, the point is where does this all end. Will we keep on theorizing newer and more fundamental particles & higher & higher levels of structure in universe.
Is there an ultimate level of reality or are there infinite levels of reality?
Humans are now capable of comprehending reality at a very basic level, but only if you know where to look.
Most people, unfortunately, do not see reality as reality really is.
Turtles all the way down:D? Hehe, I've never heard that before! I think everyone's perception of reality is a bit different, which makes me feel a bit uneasy.