mike's rant:
everything we see is just how we see it because of our perceptions. quantum physics shows us that on a quantum level anything that can happen, will.... leading us to believing in multiple universes. Kant says that space AND time, which is interesting because time doesn't work linearly on a quantum level, are a result of our interpretation and perception, not intrinsic to the nature of the world.
our reality is thus our consciousness trying to make something out because of random impulses. this came to me after pondering the dynamics of dreams. according to modern theories they are simply triggers randomly fired from our spine and interpreted by our sub conscience based on the "easiest rout" of our neurons (neurons have, of course, been proved to "rewire" themselves based on use to facilitate reoccurring thoughts). who's to say that our reality is the same thing but instead of the impulses randomly coming from our spine, they come from how our conscience choosing how to make order from the chaos it's being fed. in essence things, including us, the stars, the paper or a monitor, are just our minds making order of the chaos that is quantum physics.
this reasoning came to me after arguing that religion is just a filler for where science does not YET have answers. Evolution, for example, can be agreed to as the way we have come to be we. the question now lies, how was this created? what is the true nature of our reality? old answer: god did this from his will. modern answer: please wait for string theory, quantum theory, etc. to be perfected. We're getting there in leaps and bounds, but we haven't quite yet transcended.
this is where i believe philosophy and science really show their relation. for when Issac Newton first showed the laws of gravitation and calculus he was proving most technological innovations of the time. for this he was considered a philosopher. a true philosophy, one of pure logic and faith, as i, in the mathematical realm. and Einstein who, in his theory of relativity, questioned the idea of "reference frames" and what everything is, in essence, relative to. Now the new front is being fought and through the constant philosophic question asking, not through the curt and rather illogical god shortcut -- and a shortcut i really do find it with such religious philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas in his "Faith reason and theology" says we should not question that which transcends us for that's where faith and god lie -- can we move closer to a unified theory of sciences.