If there are no sighted men, how could the blind men in the fable know that they were in fact sensing pieces of a unified reality, the elephant? I suspect this is the main interesting problem in ontology now. It is not in fact self-evident that the universe is a unified reality.
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Replying to @vgr
Are we forgetting that the elephant likely had (but withheld) its opinion?
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Replying to @vgr
Religion as an elephant, hm, let's explore: Religion never forgets? (seemingly true) Religion will take long, meandering routes to avoid even the slightest of inclines? (thought-provoking) White religions are a gift you'd only wish on your worst enemy? (lol)
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Replying to @KikiSchirr
I’m actually mostly thinking of the ontological assumptions behind the search for grand unification in physics etc
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Replying to @vgr
I'm accidentally being dismissive by being tangential, apologies. I agree with your premise... the quest to unify, to take disparate information and seek to make it one --that seems much like a spiritual urge, but I think even in this metaphor the cognition of the elephant...
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Replying to @KikiSchirr
No the tangent is an important one and in fact I provoked it by calling out religion as the most obvious unifying unfalsifiable construct. The one underlying science is just a lot subtler.
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Replying to @vgr
Okay, I can't believe I'm attempting to get into this discussion within character limits but to me human consciousness seems like a heuristic and science is merely another game that the mind plays while seeking to perpetuate existence and understand reality
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I do think there’s a single unified elephant reality, but it can only be assumed, not justified. Any set of partial views can be unified to show mutual consistency and consistency with the elephant postulate, but not prove elephantness of reality.
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