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RE: Your Reality Is NOT What You Think It Is

in #psychology7 years ago

I think we are. Just coming at it from different perspectives, perhaps. ;)

It'd make sense considering I tend towards thinking that life is much more objective than we assume. The extreme of subjectivity would leave us unable to communicate with one another. But because there are objective similarities at play... ie. we are human, we use similar sound frequencies to communicate, we see a roughly equivalent spectrum of visible light, etc, we are able to experience common ground. Definitely more than we could with a honeybee that sees in ultraviolet light. So because of things like this I tend to focus on how we have a lot more in common than we think.

But I think you are focusing on something else anyway, and it is very true. No two people experience any sense exactly the same way. And certainly not how we process it on meta-levels. It's definitely interesting and useful to think about how much of what we perceive is not necessarily "what is" because it reminds us that we can shift focus to other data sets. We can become aware of the data sets we have been conditioned to notice. Like say, you grew up with piles of shit surrounding you that you had to avoid or else you might die of disease. Looking for that sort of data may have had an objectively useful purpose at one time, but maybe it doesn't anymore. And there's the subjectivity of it all. It seems like all we ever do as individuals is look at data sets we find most relevant to ourselves at any given time. And that is a really powerful piece of self-knowledge that can help us break out of limitations we believe are objective, but really are subjective.

Look forward to reading more of your stuff too! :)

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Exactly! And wow how crappy would it be if your mind automatically looked for piles of shit each day lolll

My main qualm with trusting objectivity is when we assume that what was communicated was actually interpreted in the way it was meant to. The words, descriptions, and metaphors I convey to you can only go so far as you'll have your own meanings and interpretations for those, which may be similar to my own, or totally different.

So in the end, the meaning of objective communication lies within the response you get.

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