We as Humans

Skeptic.

We must be skeptical to know anything for sure. There are so many things you spend your life believing so certainly that once addressed individually you're shocked to find the holes in. Is everything you are seeing just a shadow of the true reality?  Saying an apple is red is like a dog saying an apple is blue-violet or yellow. For the dog, this is a belief. For us, the apple being red is a belief. Butterflies and bees can see many colors we can't though, so to a bee, an apple could be a color we cannot even comprehend, much like to a dog, the apple is not red because red does not exist in their reality. Does this make our belief in the color of the apple less true?  If knowledge is a belief that is true and justified with evidence, do we any longer know that the apple is red? Do we any longer even believe that the apple is red? What if everything in the world is the apple? Our level of reality could very easily be like the rainbow we see compared to a bee. Unlike animals, we have morals, which add a new layer to reality. But unlike bees and butterflies, we can't see a layer that they can, due to our incapability to see much of the ultraviolet spectrum. There are colors we can't see, sounds we can't hear, chemicals we can't smell, matter we can't feel, and substances we can't taste. In this way, every one of our senses about the world around us is falling short. There are so many things we can't sense that it's hard to say anything about the world around us exists at all. One almost certain theory is that "I think, therefore, I am" yet even this seems to have a downfall. When you sleep, you loose touch with reality, so are you still real? When you dream, often you are convinced it is real, so what makes it not? What identifies this reality as more solid then that dreamscape? What really is it to be real? If you spend your life believing that you are an only child, unaware that you have a sibling, is it real because you believe it with certainty? When you were little,  you may have believed in Santa. This, for you, was knowledge. You knew this with certainty. At the time, Santa was real for you. After discovering Santa wasn't real, did it make him any less real during the time before that point?

With our limited perception, what is real? If knowing something is having a true belief, but a belief is only true in our perception of reality, do we really know things at all?

To know something we must believe it to begin. Therefore, by doubting our beliefs, are we in turn causing ourselves to not know anything at all?

Is the apple red? Is the apple even real?

Inspired by Crash Course Philosophy episode 5, which for a better explanation of how to doubt the existence and reality of everything, you can watch for free on YouTube. Or just google Cartesian Skepticism. Some teenagers like to watch tv for fun. I like to doubt the existence of knowledge, reality, and myself. Also I overuse the word exist. Never start a sentence with also. After realizing no one reads end notes I have gone off the rails.