I've begun teaching reality. Well the students don't realize that I'm teaching reality. For them I'm teaching computers. I teach differently. I understand learning as being able to be a different observer. Something you couldn't see becomes a part of your reality and we call this learning. I found that when someone sees how the whole process works, then learning goes faster - and easier.

It begins by talking about some common things we use as a piece of reality everyday, but in fact, have no basis as real "things" - intelligence, stupidity, arrogance ... We say people ARE shallow, witty, altruistic, sensual, vulgar, aggressive, shrewd, eloquent, gracious, vain, charitable ... "He/she is such a jerk. Yet none of these things can be a physical quality. More about this later.

You see our reality is a philosophical view of the world. I am - you are - he, she, it IS! Our very language is a philosophy. I think, therefore I am ... One of the best known and least understood philosophical concepts. And one I won't attempt to bore you with. Half or more people who started reading this probably dropped out as soon as they saw the word philosophy!! LOL! Yet they are all philosophers; Cartesian philosophers. We mostly see reality through his ideas. How much more effective could you be in life just realizing this! I mean if everything you think and do is based on somebody else's idea of what reality is, there could be enormous benefits in finding out if their ideas are "right".

I have often thought we need a new kind of science. It could be called something like "Applied philosophy". This would be examining ideas of reality and applying them, and the ones that prove to be effective are "good" ones. The one we mostly have appears to be very effective in dealing with inanimate reality, but sorely lacking in dealing with human beings, ourselves included. What-if we could "see" humans in a different way, a way that allows us to be as effective in dealing with ourselves as effectively as we and science observe the physical world over the last hundred years or so? What-if we ARE different than we currently see ourselves. What-if we had a way to better see that difference. We could become more effective in having life be more satisfying and peaceful.