What is reality? The things that we observe to just be and we are not to be a part of that?

Or invention, the thought that something that is could be something else, and then we act and things change?

Why is the general feeling that something has to be not created to be real, while creation is the only thing anything we see is real?

There is a name for this reality that is more real than nature. Those things are social constructs.

A social construct is real because we make it so, but as a society we shouldn't be afraid to change reality if it doesn't serve us anymore.

Reality is what we decide to be and do together. When we are not a part of something, it's a reality, but not our reality.

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> Why is the general feeling that something has to be not created to be real, while creation is the only thing anything we see is real?

At a guess: because the word "artificial" has picked up connotations of "fake"? It's not just a neutral word cognate to artifact, i.e. something manmade. For example, artificial flowers are distinguished from "real" flowers, not just having come to be through man's effort instead of natural processes, but in fact completely different articles - cunningly shaped bits of plastic made to deceive the viewer. So a term that in principle just tells you how something was created is also taken to carry information about whether it's real, and our understanding of what is real has become linked to our knowledge of its creation - even when that term itself isn't used.

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