Is reality Real?

I've been asking myself that since I discovered I had a brain. Looks like I wasn't alone...

The antirealist claim that realists will want to take issue with is the claim that minds are somehow active in creating reality rather than merely reshaping it when we intervene in the world. On the realist view we can want pigs’ ears to be silk purses and we can run around claiming that pigs’ ears are silk purses and we can even run around believing that pigs’ ears are silk purses, but all of this activity will not stop them from being pigs’ ears and will not cause them to be made of silk.

Found at... Practical Ethics