What is reality?

The scientific worldview which so dominates our contemporary consciousness is not as innocent as dropdown Arguably, it conceals as much as it illuminatesdropdown reality is. For science, reality is supposed to be made up of dropdown It is assumed to be 100% objective – dropdown But is this what reality really is? Let's take the example of a tree. What is a tree? To the Druids (a primitive society found in Northern Europe some 2,000 years ago dropdown - they were dwelling places of gods. To a child who has a tree house, dropdown To the artist it is a thing of beauty. To a lumberjack it is timber, and to the logging company dropdown To a scientist, by contrast, dropdown and photosynthesis with a specific place in the botanical taxonomy. Does the scientist tell us what a tree really is, or does he just give us one possible way of looking at a tree? dropdown or really beautiful - because these concepts are too subjective - and that the only truly objective dropdown What science does to the significance of things is truly bizarre. Since our ancestral apes rose up on their hind legs we have been trying dropdown The bright light shooting across the sky - is it a good or a bad omen? dropdown significance.