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==Robust relativism== | ==Robust relativism== | ||
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“What there is, I believe, is an encounter. And an encounter is always two ways and involves two parties and each will come away from the encounter changed. So whatever it is that we think we find in the world around us is something that is partly given and partly contributed by ourselves. ... We are co creating the world all the time because of the way we attend to it. | |||
:— [[Iain McGilchrist]]<ref>https://open.spotify.com/episode/6niFAXc0g70oCazDt78E2L? from about 27 minutes.</ref>}} | |||
Not only do we ignore Truthiness every day of the week, but we must. Because the idea of Truthiness does not make sense. | Not only do we ignore Truthiness every day of the week, but we must. Because the idea of Truthiness does not make sense. | ||
The old “you have just refuted your own argument” canard. | The old “you have just refuted your own argument” canard. | ||
===This doesn't mean anything goes=== | |||
We cannot just adopt our own truths unless we are obliged to see out our days in solidarity confinement in which case we have no choice but even then our experience of the universe will condition how we build our personal world. We test our ontology against how it works in practice. Our personal experience can falsify | |||
But beyond that we are social animals and we build our world through a shared language, in which interpretation is a dynamic, shared, two-way, multilateral thing. It is its own complex system. We must seek consensus. | |||
==What happened then== | ==What happened then== | ||
We offer the alternative explanation that due to [[system effect]]s of globalisation and the information revolution, we have been presented, daily, with the plain limitations of our historical conceptions of the universe. When you are sequestered amongst a bunch of like-minded people, this tends not to happen. This is a kind of analogue, antediluvian hive mind. Objerctive truth is ''groupthink from the inside''. | We offer the alternative explanation that due to [[system effect]]s of globalisation and the information revolution, we have been presented, daily, with the plain limitations of our historical conceptions of the universe. When you are sequestered amongst a bunch of like-minded people, this tends not to happen. This is a kind of analogue, antediluvian hive mind. Objerctive truth is ''groupthink from the inside''. | ||