Yes; to me, that's the beauty of it; the subjectivity.* I
believe it is possible to share "working assumptions" of
absolute truth, recognizing the subjective nature of it, the
changeability of it, the... "perspectiveness" of it. It's a
belief of mine that it's possible to have subjective and
objective simultaneously; in fact, that's one of the beautiful
things about the scientific method in principle (although not
always in practice): there are no facts in science that don't
have the potential to be overturned.* They're taught as
absolutes, but scientists know them as working-assumptions; the
'state of the art" - best they have at the time. I don't agree
with all of the scientific method; I believe it has built-in
limitations that will make it very difficult to measure the
subjective from a subjective perspective and consider it
science; But I think at some point, it may have to; not in my
lifetime; there's plenty of objectifiable answers to be had.*
But imagine a day where all potential objective things are
answered adequately by the scientific method; then what's left
are all of the questions it could never answer; at some point,
for a system to be a complete knowledge system, it'll have to
tackle such things as subjective from a subjective point of
view; currently not possible in that system. We may not
currently be able to experience the environment of an author for
example - with our whole bodies; yet our minds do experience
perceived environments through imagination; that's why movies
work so well and why we feel what they feel. It harkens to the
question of reality; if you experience something, does it make
it real?* If the experience is shared and verifiable in some
fashion, does that make it real? Is a shared reality, reality?
Other examples: What if you could experience the perspectives of
all people who ever lived, past present and future, all in a
single moment? We can say, "can't be done". Yet, that's our
limited technology talking.* Our perspective in our place, at
this time in history. But - we can do it in our imagination; we
can imagine experiencing the lifetimes of billions of people
simultaneously, seeing all that they see, all simultaneously for
a moment.* Our brain patterns will light up as if it is true.
So, flash forward to a time when technology is advance; imagine
we have control of Time and gain the ability to give someone the
expeirence of every lifetime and their perspectives
simultaneously? Then... it becomes "yes, it can be done." Where
is the difference between what happens in the mind verses what
we experience with our senses?* The line can be easily blurred
to "none" with virtual reality. My point is this: perhaps all
things can be true from a particular viewpoint or another and
the difference between "true" and 'false" has more to do with
our shared experience rather than as things that are absolute
for all time. Scientific facts may be true in this point in
history; we live in particular time; mathematics seems to line
up well with physics, and physics with mathematics.* Events are
repeatable.* But what if, one day they're not? Imagine the
fabric of spacetime changing around us; and we lose our ability
to predict the future using the current set of physics; and we
cannot find a new pattern to follow. Then all things return to
subjective. Did we ever leave subjective? I'm not trying to take
away from the usefulness of an objective point of view; it gives
us the ability to have knowledge build upon knowledge build upon
knowledge in our current civilization.* I would never want it to
go away, honestly; I like predictability of certain things. I
know I'm speaking "pie in the sky" as it were; but I think it's
important to understand the limitations we impose upon what we
consider "true"; to know where the boundaries are... and see if
there are ways to get past them until we find the next set of
boundaries.* If we don't, we may find ourselves trapped as a
species with limited ways of thinking and not even realize it.
But truth be told, so to speak, I agree with everything you
say.* I believe you are 100% right.
