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Re: My Truth, Your Truth, The Truth
The truth>my truth>your truth.
Doesn't really add much, but im sure that's how most people feel, maybe a few deluded ones would rank them my>the>your. |
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Re: My Truth, Your Truth, The Truth
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The truth>my truth>your truth. Doesn't really add much, but im sure that's how most people feel, maybe a few deluded ones would rank them my>the>your. [/ QUOTE ] I'm not sure, my sample size is too small. There seems a decent chunk of people that defend a Your or My or His and don't seem to acknowledge 'THE'. I sometimes describe it to them as what's left if everybody on earth drank the Jonestown koolaid. |
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I believe quantum mechanics shows that nothing exists until it is observed. Therefore, even if everyone drank the koolaid, other things with a consciousness would observe the world and it would exist.
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I believe quantum mechanics shows that nothing exists until it is observed. [/ QUOTE ] No, it doesn't. |
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I think when people use this expression they're generally talking about motivations/beliefs/interpretions of events. It's only truly mentally ill people that are using it in a literal sense (eg. their 'truth' is that they've met the Pope when they haven't).
That expression irritates me too though. It's obviously valid to say event A leads to action A in one person and action B in another, due to different and subjective interpretations of previous events. But my experience is that on the most part, people who come up with that line are using it as a fluffy rationalisation for things they know don't make sense and/or they shouldn't be doing, and aren't particularly interested in leaving that comfort bubble. And string theory does almost, sorta, maybe, show that - but two big things to bear in mind: a. Those externals things do then exist externally, which is very different from an hallucination of some kind. b. String theory though interesting is poorly understood and so far mostly unproven. |
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I think when people use this expression they're generally talking about motivations/beliefs/interpretions of events. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] a. Those externals things do then exist externally, which is very different from an hallucination of some kind. [/ QUOTE ] My statement is very basic, koolaid aside. There is one external, relativistic reality. Our individual reaction to it and representation of it is not a version of the truth, it remains a mere representation. For example, Evolution can be viewed in one sense as a testing ground for how well a species representation of that external reality actually correlates to it. Not a congruency, naturally, but if your species is poor at correlating critical events and entities with the underlying truth of them then you'll be eating coal and burning rabbits too often for your own good. It's not the 'truth' of the representation that matters it's the dependabiity of it correlation. |
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My statement is very basic, koolaid aside. There is one external, relativistic reality. Our individual reaction to it and representation of it is not a version of the truth, it remains a mere representation. [/ QUOTE ] I think the fact that the universe is relativistic, allows different "truths" based on the observer. I'd agree that usually, there is a "the truth" that is the real truth, and that individual "truths" are usually only part-truths. However, a relativistic universe means there may not always be "the truth". |
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Do you really think humans are evolving towards more rationality and higher IQs?
There is currently a marked negative correlation between someone's IQ and the number of children he has. Are you sure your theory applies to modern-day humans? |
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[ QUOTE ] I believe quantum mechanics shows that nothing exists until it is observed. [/ QUOTE ] No, it doesn't. [/ QUOTE ] Another agreement with you Boro (and I'm a fan of your avatar). To Double Down. Does it matter what observes it? Did the universe exist before we existed? |
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"Did the universe exist before we existed?"
What do you mean by we? Humans? All life on earth? What? |
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