9 Inisghts on life #9
Objectivity
is subjective
Life
is a subjective experience and that cannot be escaped. Every
experience I have comes through my own, personal, un-sharable
viewpoint. There can be no peer reviews of my direct
experience, no real corroboration. This has some major
implications for how I live my life. The most immediate one
is that I realize I must trust my own personal experience,
because nobody else has this angle, and I only have this
angle. Another is that I feel more wonder for the world
around me, knowing that any “objective”
understanding I claim to have of the world is built entirely
from scratch, by me. What I do build depends on the books
I’ve read, the people I’ve met, and the
experiences I’ve had. It means I will never see the
world quite like anyone else, which means I will never live
in quite the same world as anyone else — and therefore
I mustn’t let outside observers be the authority on who
I am or what life is really like for me. Subjectivity is
primary experience — it is real life, and objectivity
is something each of us builds on top of it in our minds,
privately, in order to explain it all. This truth has
world-shattering implications for the roles of religion and
science in the lives of those who grasp it.
By subjective I mean it is based on how we feel and how we see the situation. Objective means we need to see it from other peoples point view.But, objectivity is only how we are inside
does that make sense
By subjective I mean it is based on how we feel and how we see the situation. Objective means we need to see it from other peoples point view.But, objectivity is only how we are inside
does that make sense
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