Myth Of Reality Research Paper

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I find the idea that, what everyone experiences as reality builds off of what they have already experienced, amazing. How people perceive things and what they understand things to be, stems from what they have already learned in life. It would be an extremely rare occurrence, and is most likely impossible, for two people to experience the exact same things in life, in the same order. Even if two people did successfully fulfill this proposition, the people would not be born as the same person. This means that they could have different appearances, cultures, genetic limitations or advantages, family issues, and mental capacities; so the way life treats them would be different. It becomes a paradox, because no two people are the same. If you grow

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