Mar 24, 2026 09:54 PM
Here's another prospective definition for Real: "Real is whatever can be referenced, including both physical objects and mental objects. Transcendent is whatever can reference itself, including subjects and language and the Universe and fractals and Time itself."
“Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
“Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures