{"id":91841,"date":"2019-06-10T06:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-doesnt-actually-exist"},"modified":"2019-06-10T06:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:43:16","slug":"the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-doesnt-actually-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-doesnt-actually-exist","title":{"rendered":"The Objectivity Myth: What We Call \u2018Objective Reality\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Actually Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-objectivity-myth-what-we-call-objective-reality-doesnt-actually-exist2.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. Think about it when the next time you come across these overloaded terms \u2018objective reality\u2019 and \u2018objectivity\u2019 \u2013 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. 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:\/\/www.ecstadelic.net\/top-stories\/what-we-call-objective-reality-doesnt-actually-exist\">https:\/\/www.ecstadelic.net\/top-stories\/what-we-call-objectiv\u2026ally-exist<\/a> #ObjectivityMyth<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We can\u2019t help but anthropomorphize the notion of objective reality. As I make my case in the new 2019 book, <em> The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind\u2019s Evolution <\/em><em>, <\/em>objective reality does not exist, what exists instead is subjectivity, intersubjectivity (or \u201cconsensus\u201d reality) and supersubjectivity (overmind, <em>The<\/em> <em> Omega Hypermind <\/em> in the book). This extraordinary claim apparently demands an explanation, so let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecstadelic.net\/top-stories\/what-we-call-objective-reality-doesnt-actually-exist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/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. Think about it when the next time you come across these overloaded terms \u2018objective reality\u2019 and \u2018objectivity\u2019 \u2013 to be precise, they mean \u2018intersubjectivity\u2019 instead: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91841","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=91841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}