Reality in sentence

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The reality was that I was growing up in the strongest financial nation in the world, the United States of America, while I watched my mother stand in line at a blood bank to sell her blood for 40 dollars just to try to feed her kids.

Even science – and you know it better than I do – points to an understanding of reality as a place where every element connects and interacts with everything else.

The theory not only shattered our previous understanding of reality but would also pave the way for technologies, ranging from particle accelerators, to the global positioning system.

This has an effect on the psyche Orwell calls, "Doublethink," a hypnotic state of cognitive dissonance in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception in place of the officially dictated version of events, leaving the individual completely dependent on the State's definition of reality itself.

Reality may not play out exactly like our thought experiments, but that's not the point.

But the reality is this.

In one survey, about 90% of respondents said that it's okay to flip the switch, letting one worker die to save five, and other studies, including a virtual reality simulation of the dilemma, have found similar results.

And in one virtual reality study, people were more willing to sacrifice men than women.

In reality, it's a complex problem.

For a handful of people on the planet who carry a rare inherited genetic mutation, sleeplessness is a daily reality.

But the reality is that the people on the front line, who are supposed to be using these softwares and tools, they're skeptical or even afraid.

So the reality is that earth is incredibly good at absorbing vibrations, and once the tunnel depth is below a certain level, it is undetectable.

In reality, the Décima is its origin, but at the same time, just like in the milonga and in the Décima, are the roots of many more cultures from all over the place, like he said.

In this new world, slowly, reality became virtual and virtual became real, and I started to feel that I could not be who I wanted to be or say what I actually thought, and humanity at this time completely identified with me.

Well today I'm going to tell you about a serious reality that is changing our oceans called ocean acidification, or the evil twin of climate change.

Instead, we should worry about what they still cannot do today, because we will need the help of the new, intelligent machines to turn our grandest dreams into reality.

So at some point, the line between perspective and reality begins to blur.

And so while we get more information, a lot of that information ends up reflecting ourselves as much as it does reality.

Because to solve the problem of knowledge polarization, we're going to need to reconnect with one fundamental, philosophical idea: that we live in a common reality.

The idea of a common reality is like, I suppose, a lot of philosophical concepts: easy to state but mysteriously difficult to put into practice.

So, often it's easier for us to wrap ourselves in our cozy information bubbles, live in bad faith, and take those bubbles as the measure of reality.

I said that in order to accept that we really live in a common reality, we have to do three things.

Which brings me to the third thing that I think we need to do if we want to accept that we live in a common reality.

That's part of what is involved in recognizing there's a common reality that you, too, are responsible to.

So the concept of a common reality, like a lot of philosophical concepts, can seem so obvious, that we can look right past it and forget why it's important.

But you can't strive to inhabit that space if you don't already accept that you live in the same reality.

And I did find a quote that made a big difference in my life, which was, "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality," by Seneca the Younger, who was a famous Stoic writer.

Keeping in mind all the while, the words of Seneca: "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

And maybe instead of getting excited about the new augmented reality and virtual reality and these cool things that could happen, which are going to be susceptible to the same race for attention, if we could fix the race for attention on the thing that's already in a billion people's pockets.

Of course, we have the obligation to report reality as it is, not how we would like it to be.

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