{"id":111468,"date":"2020-08-17T02:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-is-just-a-colorful-misnomer"},"modified":"2020-08-17T02:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T09:21:51","slug":"the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-is-just-a-colorful-misnomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-is-just-a-colorful-misnomer","title":{"rendered":"The Objectivity Myth: What we call \u201cObjective Reality\u201d is just a colorful misnomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-is-just-a-colorful-misnomer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Objective reality is merely a pattern that a mind constructs because it provides a useful simplified explanatory scaffolding of the long series of subjectively perceived moments stored in its memory. Needless to say that the Vigner\u2019s Friend experiment mentioned in the article is not the only experimental evidence for the objectivity myth. Think about it when the next time you come across these overloaded terms \u2018objective reality\u2019 and \u2018objectivity\u2019 \u2014 to be precise, they mean \u2018intersubjectivity\u2019 instead: Termites would never comprehend chess, for example, this human abstraction lies beyond their species-specific intersubjective mind-network. Apart from inter-species levels of abstractions we should consider psychological, cultural and linguistic differences between individuals of the same species that makes objectivity simply non-existent. Conclusion: we can still use \u2018objective reality\u2019, \u2018objectivity\u2019 or \u2018objectively\u2019 colloquially but we should bear in mind that in a deeper sense these terms are no more than colorful misnomers. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@alexvikoulov\/the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-is-just-a-colorful-misnomer-79b697a5179d\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@alexvikoulov\/the-objectivity-myth-what-w\u2026b697a5179d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#ObjectivityMyth #ObjectiveReality #ConsensusReality #intersubjectivity #UniversalMind #UniversalConsciousness<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cIt will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the conclusion that the content of consciousness is the ultimate reality.\u201d \u2013Eugene Wigner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objective reality is merely a pattern that a mind constructs because it provides a useful simplified explanatory scaffolding of the long series of subjectively perceived moments stored in its memory. Needless to say that the Vigner\u2019s Friend experiment mentioned in the article is not the only experimental evidence for the objectivity myth. Think about it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111469,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111468\/revisions\/111469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}