Not caring whether your beliefs about reality match reality still doesn't make them reality.https://twitter.com/baileynagy/status/848600465436815360 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
OK, but isn't it simply the case that as we're finding out from psychology that people construct & inhabit their own realities?
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
And yes, I know what the objection to that is! Of course there's still only one external reality of what's actually objectively true.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
So maybe refer to them as 'virtual realities'. But still interesting part of human nature that we *don't* all perceive the same reality.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
It is but we've become so focused on this that we're losing sight of truth &the importance of trying to get closer to it & doubt perceptions
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
*nod* It's fine to say 'we all may see the world differently', but then we have choices regarding how to approach that idea.
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One is to determine that rigorous thought, gathering of evidence, and testing should be used to bring our thoughts closer to reality.
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Another is to suggest that all perspectives are equally valid and valuable.
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And you may also be interested in how individual reality-tunnels are created and maintained without buying in to the PoMo arguments.
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I think it's innate to us!
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