Bismarck's Success in Enlarging Prussia in the Years 1862 - 1871 Owed More to Luck than to "Grand Design".

A human being's search for truth begins in the external world surrounding him; and the most active process allowing him to be connected to the surrounding world is through perception. The five senses of perception, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, all contribute to a human being's acquisition of data about the surrounding environment; however, perception is followed by a process of interpretation rather than photocopying the exact image, sound, smell, taste, or feel of what he perceives, the information would have likely been affected in a certain way. We being humans, have, to some extent, only a limited ability to fully perceive and acknowledge the "real world". I personally believe in the aquatic ape theory for the human evolution; and I would argue that during the time when we haven't envolve into "humans" yet, our perception of reality would greatly differ from the one we have now, perhaps due to less capable eyesight. Or when we look at "solid" object, a chair, if one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99 % empty space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be; and I would say these seemingly solid objects are more like images that we interpret as solid objects based on our imperfect perceptual conclusions. The human mind perceives and interprets, reality is what we make it and we can make it what every we want, a glass half full or half empty, we make our own realities based on what we allow ourselves to see, and usually we have a very narrow view. If I told you the planet was really run by masons, you just can't see them, would you believe me? Likely, no. People are afraid of the unknown, which is where religion steps in, in my opinion. These things would seem too irrelevant for humans to take into account, but it proves the so called "truths" about reality of the world - the only type of truth that has a chance to pass the correspondent test, to be very doubtable. When I put a pencil in a cup of water then observe the pencil broken because of refraction, correspondently, I don't believe this because it was not logical, or it did not cohere with my previous knowledge, therefore I had to touch to check. The way leading to truth, or knowledge, can not be based on our senses of perception only, but with the assistance from our logic and reason ability, also, numerous senses must work together due to each one's limitation. However, one can argue that reality does exist on perceptual level, as one who thinks he can walk through wall would most likely break his nose, a driver who drives on a wrong side of the road would likely get into an accident, and if professors believe there is not reality perceived by humans, then what would make them think there are actually students in the classroom. One thing clear, or I would believe so, is that humans are not capable of perceiving the whole reality, but only the approximation of it, or appearance due to the limitations of our senses. I create my own reality and you create it according to your own personal world view in association with the accepted mass world view.

Once, in a scientific experiment, I saw salt disappear when it went into water, but when we evaporated off the water, then the salt will still be there; what I observed was something disappearing, correspondently, but the truth (scientific truth) was is that the salt dissolved due to scientific explanation. The scientific truth was obtained through technological advance, or in another words, as humans grow more and more sophisticated through time, a lot of established "truths" would likely be dimissed and others will be discovered. Knowledge is a justified, true belief; however, as time passes by, all the three aspects to knowledge will change, what is justified, true and believed in now might not be later on. In addition to the uncertainties of obtaining truth, our emotional states greatly affect our perception senses, or "reality", as our entire way of thinking can shift when our feelings change. But can our intention, desire, emotions have a direct effect on physical reality? Red is red; red is never green. If three people are involved in an auto accident, they will all recall about an accident , even if they differ on the details. This would prove reality to be staic. However, our perceptions of it are changed by our emotions or our perspective; that is why three people can have different versions of the same accident, and why red can be described in many different words. Truth, therefore might exist only on a personal level, as communication between humans has not reached the level where all thoughts and knowledge and be exchanged effectively. Human's conception of reality is different from any other species', due to the differences in our senses, just as the differents emotions, cultures, past experience affects each individual's senses, causing each human's perception of reality to be slightly different. Also, in my opinion, the only truth that humans care capable of obtaining is his own emotional state. Otherwise, we are not yet able to acquire universal truth due to the limitations of our senses and our biases in acquiring knowledge.

Some believe that reality exists outside and independent of our senses and we are bound by our own perception of reality believing it is the truth, when in fact reality can be something completely different; other opinions state that it doesn't really matter if reality exists or not when we cannot perceive the truth to begin with. What is clear is that perception is never reality, it is the interpretation, or appearance of reality perceived by human senses; and it differs from person to person to a certain degree; therefore, we are incapable of obtaining universal truth.

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