The answer is that we don’t see reality. The world exists. It’s just that we don’t see it. We do not experience the world as it is because our brain didn’t evolve to do so. It’s a paradox of sorts: Your brain gives you the impression that your perceptions are objectively real, yet the sensory processes that make perception possible actually separate you from ever accessing that reality directly. Our five senses are like a keyboard to a computer—they provide the means for information from the world to get in, but they have very little to do with what is then experienced in perception.
Beau Lotto
Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
Hello. Welcome to the human race.
We are playing a game. And we are playing by the following rules. We want to tell you what the rules are so that you know your way around.
And when you’ve understood what rules we’re playing by when you get older, you may be able to invent better ones.
Alan Watts
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Upgraded for modern times, it would be VR head gear.
Additional Resources
Truth vs Reality: How We Evolved To Survive, Not To See What’s Really There – Big Think
Is Reality Real? These Scientists Don’t Think So – Big Think