What makes something real?
Source: Big Think ·
What is the color red? What counts as a mountain versus a hill? What is a president, and what powers does a president have? According to Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, the answers have something important in common: They depend, at least in part, on people collectively assigning meaning to physical signals in the world. “What you do, what you don’t do, what you say, what you don’t say — your daily actions help to constitute reality, help to manifest reality,” Barrett says. A different way to think about reality It’s par
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