“most people, even philosophers, recognize reality as fundamentally different to fiction.”
That statement may or may not be correct, but even if it is correct, it has limited relevance to whether reality is different to belief unless all beliefs are fictions. They might all be fictions, but that assertion is untestable.
Perhaps you intend to suggest that most people recognise reality as fundamentally different to belief? Well, that would be a more interesting statement, but I will contend that if they do, they are wrong. Are you familiar with the brain in a vat? I’m new here and kind of assumed that anyone here is. If so, then I cannot understand why anyone here would think that reality exists at all independently of belief. There is no evidence for reality other than belief. How can there possibly be? The idea is absurd, surely? How could such evidence enter our consciousness other than through believing our senses?
“most people, even philosophers, recognize reality as fundamentally different to fiction.”
That statement may or may not be correct, but even if it is correct, it has limited relevance to whether reality is different to belief unless all beliefs are fictions. They might all be fictions, but that assertion is untestable.
Perhaps you intend to suggest that most people recognise reality as fundamentally different to belief? Well, that would be a more interesting statement, but I will contend that if they do, they are wrong. Are you familiar with the brain in a vat? I’m new here and kind of assumed that anyone here is. If so, then I cannot understand why anyone here would think that reality exists at all independently of belief. There is no evidence for reality other than belief. How can there possibly be? The idea is absurd, surely? How could such evidence enter our consciousness other than through believing our senses?