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Traditionally, the hard sciences have looked to the observable world as fundamental to acquiring knowledge, but over the last few decades that paradigm has changed. Quantum mechanics originally dealt with an abundant amount of information that was impossible to observe, but recently they're seeing that they're able to actually make observations. More importantly, what they've discovered is that the observable world isn't actually fundamental at all, but rather an interface with reality.
It's not unlike what we experience when we are looking at a computer screen. There are icons which we click on, and move around a computer screen. We interact with people all over the world, but what is happening on the screen isn't the reality at all, it's just the "interface" with the computer and other people.
This term is quite appropriate in that it spotlights the interaction between the subjective and objective aspects of reality. The face, persona, facade, etc. is the objective aspect while there is a corresponding subject that identifies with it. Likewise, reality also has this distinction between the subject and object; the knower, and the known; the consciousness and what it is conscious of, etc..
Mathematicians are coming up with equations proving that the observable world as well as the faculties used to interact with it are not fundamental to reality. What we see with the senses is just part of the "interface" with reality. As it turns out, objective reality is only a miniscule piece of the equation, or interface with reality. The rest can't be observed, and what effective difference is there between that conclusion, and Christ's "observation" that the kingdom of heaven doesn't come about by observation?
It's not unlike what we experience when we are looking at a computer screen. There are icons which we click on, and move around a computer screen. We interact with people all over the world, but what is happening on the screen isn't the reality at all, it's just the "interface" with the computer and other people.
This term is quite appropriate in that it spotlights the interaction between the subjective and objective aspects of reality. The face, persona, facade, etc. is the objective aspect while there is a corresponding subject that identifies with it. Likewise, reality also has this distinction between the subject and object; the knower, and the known; the consciousness and what it is conscious of, etc..
Mathematicians are coming up with equations proving that the observable world as well as the faculties used to interact with it are not fundamental to reality. What we see with the senses is just part of the "interface" with reality. As it turns out, objective reality is only a miniscule piece of the equation, or interface with reality. The rest can't be observed, and what effective difference is there between that conclusion, and Christ's "observation" that the kingdom of heaven doesn't come about by observation?