What is Truth?

Mauritzio Morabito

Tim adds:

Oh, I think you exaggerate; I'm sure it's no more than 6.5 billion who think you are unattractive. (: I would add this is the democratization of reality, something not at all democratic. It's at the core of Rousseau's idea of the Collective Will; if a majority think it so it must be. But reality isn't taking polls, and it doesn't bow to public pressure. That is where the concept of Natural Law comes into play; there is a law in Nature that transcends human institutions. America was founded on the idea of Natural Law. But there are those who hate the idea, who seek to be gods themselves, and so willfully refuse to accept reality. These are the relativists, who think reality is malleable and subject to our will. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Relativity gave this philosophical system a huge boost in the 20th century because it was argued the observer played a critical role in reality at the quantum level - or where time is concerned at high speeds. But these are very limited things, and we really do not fully understand them. The observer "chooses" nothing; rather, he either observes a or b when there is a dichotomy of events. Yes, Bohrs thought all reality worked that way too, but he's never been proven correct in that (although there are some tantalizing clues in that regard). Still, reality lies outside of us, even if our point of view may play a roll in how reality plays out. In the end an asteroid will still strike the Earth no matter how much we seek to wish it away. As writer Phillip K. Dick famously stated, reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, won't go away. You can stop believing your are a man but in the end you still remain one. Even if you have a sex change, you become a mutilated man who dresses like a woman. It won't go away.

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