Tuesday, February 2, 2010
WHAT IS TRUE?
We keep debating if our thoughts, ideas, and beliefs are real or not. But, sometimes I wonder if they need to be. If you simply believe in something, even if it isn’t true, doesn’t it become true for you, in your reality? For instance, you believe that there is a God and the thought makes you happy. Even if God doesn’t exist, the happiness you experienced is still very much true. Or the despair felt at the moment when you start believing that all life is meaningless. These ideas, even if they are wrong, do they not still excite real emotions and so become real for at least that person’s reality. This of course brings up the whole idea of if everyone has a different reality, which I think they do (I will write another blog on that later.) but, that is still beside the point. What i am wondering is if things have to be really truly true in a factual sense for them to be “true” or is just your perception of that as true enough? Is a person with schizophrenia necessarily wrong? Do truths have to be universal for them to be true???
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If you deny the existence of a unique physical reality, it would be impossible to blog about world affairs. You would not, for example, be able to claim someone was killed if a blogger with more prestige said he's still alive.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, there are lies that can be gotten away with only in the case of multiple physical reality, but not vice versa.
The extravagant claims by some physicists of multiple reality have never been demonstrated. It has only been shown that matter can be blurred into a set of copies, but they still share the same real space.