Yes, because worldviews are just narratives are they not?
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Replying to @AudleyStrange
A *consensus* worldview (i.e. a shared reality) is composed of fragments of multiple narratives.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Yes, but those fragments are just woven into another narrative, while it may have a consensus it's not by any measure, real.
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Replying to @AudleyStrange
A narrative is a story. A shared reality is composed of multiple, orthogonal stories. And, if our common worldview isn't real, what is?
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Our actions and the consequences of them and our sensations. All of which we build narratives round.
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Replying to @AudleyStrange
But you're aware that our perceptions, including sensations, don't accurately reflect objective reality, right? So they're not real either
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @AudleyStrange
Objective reality is beyond our grasp, so the only reality that makes any sense is the one we perceive.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @AudleyStrange
And this is composed of perceptions and our (narrative) interpretations of them.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
I would say that as soon as we begin to interpret them we take a further step away from reality and into, as you say, narrative.
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Replying to @AudleyStrange @G_S_Bhogal
Which can and does lead to all sorts of "moral" quandries, wherein we justfiy, for example, mass child murder if done for "right" reasons.
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One could make the argument that morality itself is just a narrative (but that leads to dark places)
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Morality is a difficult one. I did read an excellent piece a while ago where a philosophiser argued that it's basically a form of aesthetics
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