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Question:All concepts are man made. Do trees make concepts? Do frogs? Goats? Rocks? Electricity? Wake up dude all concepts are man made because man is the only creature with a brain big enough to create concepts.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: All concepts are man made. Do trees make concepts? Do frogs? Goats? Rocks? Electricity? Wake up dude all concepts are man made because man is the only creature with a brain big enough to create concepts.

Yes. We evolved to perceive the world in a certain way. We only see a limited range of the spectrum. The world is different when perceived at different wavelengths. Objects are just collections of vibrating energy (atoms) with space in-between, but our senses and brains see objects.

And what is maths. Isn't math just logic made up in peoples minds to describe the world

Some people believe in religion others don't.

I think reality is relative to how it is perceived.

Actually, fantasy is the man made concept. Everything else lives in the real world; we're the only creatures dumb enough to question it.

I think there is one word for two different things.

Reality to me can either be the real world and things that exist whether life exists or not like matter, gravity, light, etc... Or reality can represent the PERCEPTION of reality by an intelligent form of life. A perception cannot exist without a perceiver.

For example most people find that grass is green. And intelligent people can figure out that the accelerative force due to gravity on Earth is roughly 9.8m/s/s. But in reality it doesn't matter because it makes no difference whether the grass is green or black or red. Colors are descriptions made by man. Numbers were created by man. The Earth just is what it is - man or no man.

So I believe reality is not man made but the PERCEPTION of reality obviously is. Great question.

No. It is the truth understood bu the man.
But the concepts like God(I'm not trying to make u angry if ur a Christian..ok) is really a man made one. God is there only in their minds..

If god really exists, I have some more questions..
1) Where is he living? where is that place?
2)Has anybody seen him?
3)If he created the world, who created him? Did he automatically came?
4)If everthing is happening to his wish,
-there are millions of people in this world who don't believe on him(other religions). Is that also his wish?
-Do people die for his wish, the young/youth and old?
-People born dissabled. Is that also for his wish?

When we compare these things with some other religions, I could found that Buddhism really gives acceptable answers to these the truth understood by the man.

Reality is undefined. We are still going through the motions of searching for it.

Yes, everything we percieve, even our imaginations, are "man made" because our brains are creating our perception of the world using information from our sensory organs. Colors, for example, don't exist; neither do sounds, they are simply shockwaves of atoms but we "hear" something nevertheless.