Queries: Reality that Involves Infinity

"Transcend" means going beyond the limits of something.  Therefore, when you transcend reality, it means that you go beyond the limits of reality.  Does this necessarily mean fantasy? or perhaps fiction?  In this case, what are the limits of reality?  Does it mean something confined within the five senses: listen, see, touch, taste, and smell?  Perhaps it would help if the terms "fantasy" and "fiction" are defined.  "Fantasy" is about imagining improbable things.  "Fiction", on the other hand, means something invented; and therefore, involves things that are considered imaginary.  How about delusion?  Does the idea of transcending reality involve delusion?  How can you transcend reality without having delusions?

How about we apply this to truth.  When you search for the truth, will it involve transcending of reality?  When you do your search for truth, it demands something from your mind.  When you think about reality, your mind is always involved.  If reality is something confined to the five senses, and your mind is the one that controls these senses, how can somebody be sure that one is not having fantasies and living in fiction since the same mind is capable of something imaginary? 

Is reality a concept that is something relative, relative to the subjects involved, and in turn, relative to the minds involved?  If reality is relative to the minds involved, then is it some sort of a social convention, just like in the case of mathematical notations, such that there is the "reality of mathematics"?  Maybe reality is meant to be intertwined with imaginary things.  When one chooses not to transcend reality, e.g. being staunchly realistic, how can one be so sure that he or she does not imagine things?  Can this person be considered a conformist since reality is a relativistic social convention confined within a particular scope of subjects or group of persons for that matter?

Perhaps being perfectly realistic means conforming to a relativistic convention formed by an infinite scope of subjects -- yes, "infinite scope" is the term.  Reality is indeed a natural thing since it always involves nature.  If reality is a natural thing, and reality is a relativistic convention formed by a scope of natural subjects, is something supernatural still a form of reality?  Is reality, as a product of relativistic convention formed by an infinite scope of subjects, which may involve an infinite mind, can be considered supernatural?  Does this mean that being supernatural is something ultimately real?  Are we all designed to be supernatural since we have a mind that can imagine things?

That would mean that we belong to a family of supers.

from 0 to infinity

     An entity is composed of molecules governed by the laws of nature.  One might wonder about the essence of the laws of nature.  Do they exist to prevent an entity from becoming a free entity? Or do they exist in order to be in harmony with the other entities of the universe?  In the age of liberalism, something that defies the laws of nature is fascinating, but does this something that defy the laws of nature really exist?  Or is it simply just an undiscovered phenomenon not yet articulated by the abstraction of the human mind?  If one would say that something defies the laws of nature, is somebody sure that these laws of nature have been completely defined by the means of abstraction employed under the natural sciences?  Is the scientific thought able to define every phenomena through its limited language so that it deserves the right to be the last stand when it comes to the proclamation of the "natural truth"?  If one believes the notion that there is a higher form of abstraction than what the human mind is capable of, then the scientific thought can never attain the fullness of natural truth because it is a bounded or limited form of abstraction.  It is a form of abstraction that is confined to what phenomena were observed so far.  
     
     However, there is something good in the scientific thought that enabled us to appreciate the essence of the natural law.  It may not be able to discover everything, but it can help us appreciate that the existence of this world is real; and in order to exist in accordance to the "rules of the game", one must appreciate the reality in its simplest form through the so-called "little things" of everyday life.  This talk about abstraction can go on and on like from number 0 to positive infinity.  If it is overwhelming, then one can always turn around and find number 0 again; then proceed to negative infinity.  One can always move that way entangled in the infinite loop, and miss everything in his/her bounded duration of existence in this world.

 

[thoughts to think about, but don't forget that there is something higher than the natural law]