Bebelina,
Cris, just because something is not viewable or can be measured with instruments, doesn't mean that it can't exist, that it isn't real.
That’s correct. But unless you can measure, detect, or observe it then you cannot determine whether it is a product of human imagination or not. All you know for sure is that you have imagined it, whether it eventually maps to a reality is another issue.
Whether it's a part of reality for you is if you acknowledge its existence or not.
Personal perceptions of reality have no value unless they map onto true reality. Imagining something is real and believing it is real without knowing it is real reduces life to a lottery where the odds are stacked against you in the ratio of around infinity to 1 since there are an infinite number of things that can be imagined and only a small finite set that map to reality.
If you want to call it real, it is real for you,
And as I said above such a position is essentially without value.
and just because someone else sees it differently doesn't change your original perception of it.
But it should since that should make you question whether your perception is valid or not. To maintain your personal belief as true regardless of what others say or what evidence is available is simple arrogance.
It may change after hearing someone elses input, but that is just a matter of whether you accept that input as part of your reality.
You seem to be ignoring the possibility that many people only believe based on rational objectivity. It is possible to take a stance where a conclusion is not reached or where belief is suspended until an objective rational conclusion can be reached. How that objectivity is determined cannot be decided solely on personal perceptions of reality but on an independent absolute standard. Developing that absolute standard is a real challenge that we may never fully achieve but it should require the cooperation of everyone or at least most of the members of our species. At the present time this is known as science. If everyone simply follows their own personal perceptions and calls that reality then that is a clear recipe for chaos, disaster and probably the ultimate extinction of the human race.
We all have the right to experience this world in whatever manner we please.
Perhaps, but not if those experiences are allowed to lead to irrational perceptions that in turn result in harm to others.
If the physical world is your only reality, then that's ok, groovy for you.
I’m interested in everything, and as yet no one has been able to show that there is anything other than the physical. Imagining there is something more doesn’t make it real.
I prefer to expand my reality all the time, instead of narrowing it down.
But unless you know that your perceived reality maps to actual reality you simply run the significant risk of living in a world of delusion. But perhaps you can be happy with that. But I would prefer to know the truth.