Expanding on this, colors are basically just a mental construct, it is how your brain interprets specific wavelengths, my colors may not be the same as yours
If one of your cones doesn't work, your perception of "reality" is skewed, though not really any more or less"true"
If one of your cones doesn't work, your perception of "reality" is skewed, though not really any more or less"true"
https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1386370063750635527
Pain is just your brain's response to damaged nerve cells which send electrical signals that are routed by your peripheral system to the central nervous system (specifically your nrian) to stop whatever action causes damage
Your brain simulates "pain" to incentivize the rest of "you" to fix this problem, if this didn't happen (no pain threshold), humans would die far more easily without realizing it
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenita…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenita…
Pain isn't an external thing, and what is extremely painful for one person may be nothing to another (spicy food isn't a flavors, it's just pain receptors)
There is no truth here, only perception from a small subset of information of the external world interacting with us
There is no truth here, only perception from a small subset of information of the external world interacting with us
Someone also brought up a good point that our brains tend to "fill in the details", aka remembering something that didn't actually happen
This is why eye witness accounts are not reliable, especially when under traumatic stress
This is why eye witness accounts are not reliable, especially when under traumatic stress
https://twitter.com/TumescentR/status/1386373027500216321?s=19
The point I am getting at is that definitive truth in it's ultimate form is fundamentally incompatible with human being, it isn't what keeps up alive as a species
Therefore our collective perception of truth is ultimately what we're after, social consensus of what is legitimate
Therefore our collective perception of truth is ultimately what we're after, social consensus of what is legitimate
If we can generate definitive truth, but nobody recognizes it as such, how much value is it providing? I'm not saying 1984, but I'm speaking from a position of pragmatism over straight raw idealism (the road to hell is paved with good intentions)
Trust is an infinite regression
Trust is an infinite regression
One day when everything of value, everything we interact with, and even the way humans are created are entirely digital, deterministic, and 1,000,000x the mental bandwidth, this can change and we can injest raw data ourselves
Until then, social consensus is our "truth"
Until then, social consensus is our "truth"
I really don't know where I was going with this thread, but I thought this was interesting on the topic of truth, have a good day frens
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