The pandemic highlights an issue that has been haunting me all my life: most people live in a socially shared consensus reality, while I am locked into an independent construct. Accounting for the consensus seems more important than for the available evidence. How strange.
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Replying to @Plinz
Independent constructs are important as they ground things but they must always account for shared reality
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Replying to @Sara_Imari @Plinz
Last I checked, there's only one reality, and the number of observers of an ontology does not correlate to its correctness.
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Replying to @dluzar @Sara_Imari
But it you want to venture far out yourself, you have to make sure that you can anchor your perspective in trusted other minds that you can ask to criticize your thoughts. Sara is right in this (she is exploring the boundary of the possible herself).
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Replying to @Plinz @Sara_Imari
Yes. Perhaps I misinterpreted her position. But it's also important not to automatically give too much credence just based on the number of observers, since that heuristic will often lead you way off the right course (as history has shown).
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I met Sara and she never seems to care about the number of people that agree with her, but whether she respects these people intellectually
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