Subjective Reality

A Version of Truth

Thus, no single human being can know precisely what or how another human being feels, or what that other human sees or thinks or understands. This fundamental isolation - the depth of which we literally have no way of exploring - causes us, as "social" creatures, into some (I believe) rather interesting assumptions. Since it seems to be in our nature to be social and to attempt to understand one another, it is difficult for us to deal with the notion that we are isolated from one another, can not truly know one another, and have no way of determining (really) whether or not our experiences are similiar to one another's or not. This paradox - that we are isolated from one another - no matter how well we communicate (I do believe that there are exceptions to this, of course) - and yet, that we wish to know one another and interact with one another and that we seem to require some kind of common ground (i.e. "I know exactly how you feel," or "That happens to me all the time," etc) - this paradox creates a set of assumptions by which we often seem to live.

Some of these assumptions include:

I disagree almost entirely with these assumptions. However, I have observed human beings behaving as if they can be depended upon to be true, or real.

In reality, I believe, we each have our own truths. What is actually true is a function chiefly of what an individual believes to be true. In this matter, I am speaking chiefly of metaphysical questions, and not of scientific one - my notion as to what is true (objectively) in the physical word - and how we know that it is true - is at this point in my philosophizing very shaggy and ill-developed. I have a lot of thinking and exploring to do - years worth, most likely - before I can generate any significant opinion on these matters. But in terms of belief, and behaviour, I believe that each person lives in what is, for most purposes, each's own reality. Everyone has their own point of view, and their own beliefs. What is "true" to one person (god exists, or doesn't exist, or whatever) may or may not be true to someone else. It is symptomatic of the paradox of our existenence (isolation vs socialization) that we tend to be affected by what others say is true, particularly if their reasons for believing such seem to be persuasive.

In summary, I do not believe in any sort of objective truth, only in sub -jective truth.