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the surrounding world.
Ideal reality
According to Burk et al. (1972), ideality is a second mode
of reality, which encompasses all kinds of symbols, codes,
equations, mathematics, and logic. It refers to the world of
ideas of “things” that are purely mental or subjective, which
the normal senses cannot perceive as they lack physical con-
sistency (in the way tangible things do). However, they serve
to coordinate real reality, technically control it, and describe
its occurrences even though we do not know its inner essen-
ce. If this is the case, we can see why using ideality to sepa-
rate real reality from ideal reality is paradoxical.
Thus, logic and mathematics are the ideal (mental) tools
that science employs to understand the real reality of the
world and create theories that describe it. In the social or
human sciences, especially words or ideas (and also statis-
tics) are used as constructs aimed at understanding (rather
than explaining) human behavior, including emotions, fears,
and joys (Martínez, 1999). Our world is filled with symbols
(words, numbers, symbols, codes, signs, etc.), and we live
amidst them without escaping (Savater, 2007).
As we stated, ideal reality has no mass, weight, density,
boiling point, or anything similar; its objects do not move
or transform. The most important thing that can change is
the ink or paper on which they are written. Ideal reality only
creates theoretical models, mental molds, or maps of certain
aspects of macro or micro-physical reality. Its topographical
location is the brain of those who use it, including libraries
and computers. We can then say that reality (real) is the ma-
terial phenomenon imposed by the portion of energy, light,
or electromagnetic wave coming from things, objects, or
processes, impacting first our retina and passing to our cons-
ciousness (Burk et al., 1972).
Each person does the rest, as Martínez (1999) expresses,
interpreting according to their personal experiences and
what their culture has taught them. There is no exterior or
interior reality but rather a structural interaction influenced
by energy, neural processes, configurations, and more. Of
course, it is presumed that if we see, hear, or touch aspects of
physical reality, some part of its energy structure stimulates
or impacts our brain and causes us to respond.
There must be some conjugation between the perceiving
subject and the world around them since we are the product
of that configurational energy of Nature. We do not know
what this conjugation is like, whether it responds to a teleo-
nomic project, whether it is a copy of something pre-exis-
ting, created by an intelligence or cosmic system, or another
process. Living beings have a specific type of vital program-
ming: they are born, grow, and die. However, it is possible to
imagine, as Monod (2016) believes, that all living beings are
the result of the chaotic ordering or self-organizing potential
of matter that, after millions of years, generated a formidable
brain attached to a multifunctional body (Burk et al., 1972;
Morín, 1992).
Becoming and the apparent
Becoming is synonymous with change, movement, and
displacement from one state to another of matter about a
theoretically stable reference (López & Aboites, 2017). We
mentioned earlier that the ancient Greeks realized everything
changes, transforms, moves from one state to another, and
eventually decays or perishes. Of course, it does not disa-
ppear but becomes something else or “nothing” colloquia-
lly. In this sense, the first philosophers were surprised by
the changes they saw in Nature and tried to explain them in
various ways: by the action of water, air, fire, or another ele-
ment. According to Plato (2006), there had to be an ultimate
explanation for everything that moved. The Supreme Good
is often described as the prime mover that initiated all mo-
tion without itself being moved by anything else.
In contrast, Parmenides (Padilla, 2015) denied movement
and thought it was only appearance, a deception of the sen-
ses, and mere opinion. What is visible is apparent. It is never
true. He believes that being is, and non-being is not. Being
and thinking are the same. Parmenides (Padilla, 2015) pro-
posed that there are only two possible ways of investigation.
The first is the affirmation that being exists and that it is im-
possible for it not to exist; this is the way of persuasion, as it
is accompanied by truth. The second is that non-being does
not exist and must not exist; this, I assure you, is an entirely
indecipherable way, as you cannot know what does not exist,
much less express it.
From this point of view, being does not change or become.
It is like a sphere where everything is equidistant from the
center. Zeno of Elea, Parmenides’ disciple, would ridicule
those who opposed his teacher, using the famous paradox
of Achilles and the tortoise: the runner never overtakes the
tortoise because it always has at least a tiny advantage every
time (Rodríguez et al., 2008). Essentially, Parmenides (Pa-
dilla, 2015) confused logic with ontology: only at the level
of thought are things identical and static, but not in the real
world.
Neither Plato (2006), Parmenides (Padilla, 2015), nor
Aristotle (Mié, 2009) denied the existence of reality and
movement, but they had different explanations for it. Plato