Brian Greene's Perception: The Reality Beyond Matters

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Greene’s YouTube video highlights and fights against what is real and what is not. His ideas are based on science and nothing more than what the brain is capable to do. Also, what the brain is not able to do and that we also don’t know about. According to him what is real and what is not is based on perception, Greene’s intentions in ‘Perception – The Reality Beyond Matter’ Illustrate a certainty of which path most people want in life and it brings a general idea of a realistic path everyone would enjoy taking. In Brian Greene’s YouTube video, reality deals with the first level of consciousness, the view is more of an objective one towards the physical state, the mind is separated from our body. The findings of modern science has developed

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