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We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence. -- Duane Elgin
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. -- Jean Piaget
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. -- Thomas Griffith
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. -- John Fiske
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. -- Salman Rushdie
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious. -- Jodhi May
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. -- Michael Hansmeyer
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors. -- Stellan Skarsgard
Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time. -- Robert Lanza
The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. -- David Eagleman
One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something. -- Steve James
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. -- David Eagleman
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action. -- Jerome Ravetz
Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man? -- Michael Denton

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