REALITY
Reality is only as real as our ability to determine that it is real. But reality is the most real experience we can have. If you determine reality as being physical, tangible, and painful, then reality is very real.

Objective reality is the common one experienced by sane individuals. Reality can't be proven to exist, but it is the common reality we experience and agree on. It is a common delusion. We trust reality to be real. Trust and belief makes it real, and even though it is potentially a lie or a delusion it is effective. Similarly, it's by the "grinding machinery of convention" that we navigate through a world full of conflicting ideas, confusion and chaos, and even though our concepts may not be correct, even though we may not know the exact meaning of the variables, it still gets us to a result.

The methodology necessarily can never be perfect, because we're human and not omniscient. Some of us rely on tradition, some of us rely on independence, and people trust in their beliefs. But people don't trust the government, they don't trust religion, they won't trust the money, and they don't trust each other. A lot of people don't trust in reality anymore.

If you can't trust in objective reality, basically everything goes to shit. Everything and everyone is dependent on reality being real, and I think it's an important footnote that while we can't prove reality to be real, it's still undeniably painful. While the idea of solipsism might be interesting or closer to truth, it can be counterproductive, which is real.

STORYTELLING AND HYPERREALITY
So there's a caveman, and he's trying to catch a deer. One of his friends communicates that there's a deer over the hill, and they go to find it, but there's no deer. What he said wasn't true, but was it a lie? The caveman goes home and tells a story about how he caught a massive deer with his bare hands but lost it to a bear.

So it might start as simple miscommunication. Reality turned out to be different. But then maybe we started thinking about things that never happened. "Necessity is the mother of invention."

With lies, or stories, or ideas, we have the ability to think of things that never happened before. And by thinking of things that never happened before, we can make them true. So a lie can become true. What was fiction becomes reality. And then reality informs new fiction.

Because of our subjective view of objective reality, we can be deceived, but do you assume that every piece of information you read is a lie? Every piece of information has the dual state of truth or lie. But "lying" assumes intent to disinform.

It seems to me that lying and untruths are a thing of the Devil and of humanity, making a break with objective reality as it is to make something different in our own image or our pride. It's that devilish freedom to create as the Creator.

I don't know, something to think about.