funkadelik
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Hey, that's a neat video.
Yeah, I fare much better with the "reality" question when I approach it from a scientific perspective. If I start waxing too philosophically about things I can just go in circles and circles till the cows come home (what is the difference between subjective and objective reality? Is there any such thing as objective reality anyway? Is what we perceive to be objective reality just the collection of all our subjective realities? And if we're all perceiving an objective reality, isn't that by definition subjective? But it can't be a fluke that we all seem to observe, more or less, the same reality. There must be some kind of objective reality out there! WTF is reality anyway?). *cue existential crisis*
At least science gives me meaningful answers I can run with. And within science it helps to approach things initially from different categories, then move on to bringing those categories together to form a bigger picture and then from there an even bigger picture until eventually I have a reasonable conception of reality (a reality with a good basis in reason and empirical data, rather than speculation).
Yeah, I fare much better with the "reality" question when I approach it from a scientific perspective. If I start waxing too philosophically about things I can just go in circles and circles till the cows come home (what is the difference between subjective and objective reality? Is there any such thing as objective reality anyway? Is what we perceive to be objective reality just the collection of all our subjective realities? And if we're all perceiving an objective reality, isn't that by definition subjective? But it can't be a fluke that we all seem to observe, more or less, the same reality. There must be some kind of objective reality out there! WTF is reality anyway?). *cue existential crisis*
At least science gives me meaningful answers I can run with. And within science it helps to approach things initially from different categories, then move on to bringing those categories together to form a bigger picture and then from there an even bigger picture until eventually I have a reasonable conception of reality (a reality with a good basis in reason and empirical data, rather than speculation).