How objective is reality?

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It’s all relative.

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All of reality is our perception of it.

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“A is A,” says Ayn Rand

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I haven’t read Ayn Rand but I should.

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It’s objective.

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Extremely relative to each individual but may appear objective
Think about dropping a ball out the window of a moving train. To the person dropping the ball, the ball drops straight down. To an onlooker outside of the train watching, the ball falls down while moving horizontally. Both perceived the same exact event but witnessed two entirely different things

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Ask the 🐠 from Meta

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Objective events ascribed subjective meaning

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Raelity is what it is. Just ask anyone hooked up to more tubes than you can count after a transplant.

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Physics is objective (mostly). Otherwise, everything has shades of grey

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In a 100m race the person that came second can still go home feeling like a winner because they know they ran their best race. There's facts and then there's perception. Reality is the intercept between the two.

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This is a good point. In some things, where there are metrics, reality is more objective than, for example, interpreting someone’s behaviour.

Depends on how real the objectives are.

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