What if human beings are not the measure of reality?

[Prof-Dr Kamstiess]

We tend to look at the universe through the limitations of our own perception, language, culture and experience. We call something “real” because we can observe it, measure it or understand it within the framework we have created.
But reality itself does not need our permission to exist.
Gravity did not begin to exist when Newton described it. The stars did not become real when we discovered them. And the universe does not have to conform to the way the human mind would like it to behave.
This leads to a question I find much more interesting than simply asking what we believe to be true:
Is truth something we discover about reality — or something we construct from the limits of our own perception?
I’ve been exploring this idea through philosophy, physics and the nature of reality, and it has become a major theme in my writing.
I’d be genuinely interested to hear what other people think.
Can we ever see reality as it actually is, rather than merely seeing the version of it that our minds allow us to see?

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