h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

reality 1 quantum reality
the very small scale
subatomic quantum particles are NOT discrete. just probabilities. cause and effect may not apply. this can be considered the illusion of another reality that humans have yet to conceive. or, perhaps, can never conceive.

reality 2 newtonian reality
if you increase the size scale to the Newtonian macrocopic scale, the probabilities of the quantum world become [or create the illusion of] discrete physicality. discrete physicality is the illusion of the newtonian world. this illusion IS the reality of the newtonian world.

reality 3
reproducing entities emerge [molecules to genes] and evolve into gene survival machines [organisms], creating the illusion of purpose in life, that purpose being to continue propagation of genes. the illusion of the drive to survive. this illusory purpose can be considered REAL.

reality 4
continued evolution [probably driven by sexual selection] leads to bigger and bigger brains until the neocortex becomes sufficiently complex to engage in complex information processing and manipulation [human thought]. this leads to the illusion of profound meaning and purpose in life, including spirituality. once more, this illusion IS reality for humans.

This seems correct.
and if you can really understand it, then you could bend illusory spoons!
BUT
to understand and believe it means that you will be considered outside the illusion and be displaying symptoms of a mental disorder.
Or you would be dead.
The purpose of inhabiting the body physical is to live in the illusion and to enjoy the ride.

hmm
so, you're saying to just life life, eh? i've been thinking that that's the way to go.
i think i get what you're saying about our inability to truly see through the illusions of life because we are INSIDE of it.
it is like the frog at the bottom of the well, stuck inside. he cannot truly see beyond the illusion that the world is a dark cylindrical space

i DO have a mental disorder, btw

i'm SO sleepy now

amanda,
maybe you should take a couple extra strength tylenols before you take a peek at annie and my posts

Too late.

please watch Waking Life!

it's got loads of stuff in it that'll make you go, ?

peteY out!