This Funzing Experience:

Is reality real?

'The Matrix', 'Inception', and Flat Earth conspiracy theories have something in common: they all play on our paranoias about the reality of reality.

Since the beginning of writing on the nature of reality has been an explicit concern that it isn’t “real”.

The person who hallucinates seems to see the oasis. The distant fog looks like an army of ghosts. Could everything we experience be a kind of illusion? Are we staring out into the world as it or some forgery?

In the first half of this talk we will explore these issues together in an open discussion.

In the second half I will outline the trajectory of responses to this question starting with the people who raised it (the medieval sceptics) through Descartes, Kant and to contemporary philosophy.

I will defend the contemporary view which claims that most of the famous philosophers of modern history have been wrong: there is a distinction between hallucination and reality – and we should all believe that reality is, in fact, real.

Venue: Lighthouse Bar, Shoreditch

Doors: 7pm / Talk starts: 7.30pm.

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Funzing Talks @ Night is a new concept which aims to take the well known 'Tedx' style talks, and make them more accessible. We've pulled together an impressive array of leading entrepreneurs, intellectuals, bright thinkers and incredible individuals to inspire and re-invent your after work beers.

Held in a hand picked range of bars across London, a Funzing Talks @ Night event makes the perfect after work mid-week activity.

Delve into a totally new subject and challenge your perspectives over a beer with like-minded Londoners. Funzing has always encouraged you to do something different with your free time, so we say do just that - you never know where it may lead you!