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Originally Posted by newmark  Subjective reality is one viewpoint, no more. |
You see, "objective reality" is also a viewpoint. This is the thing that many people don't realise.
You don't have to focus on esoteric mind theories to understand this. Simply pick any aspect of your ordinary reality that you're reasonably familiar with, and start by asking yourself - "What is objectively true about this?" and you will see what I mean.
You could pick law, economics, accountancy, politics, religion, stock markets, government policy, gardening techniques, advice on how to raise a child, whatever .... And keep asking yourself - "What is objectively true about this?" and you see how rapidly the reasoning breaks down. Inevitably, you'll find the top experts disagreeing somewhere, and wow, it looks like a clash of subjectivities again.
The same thing goes for science, the most "objective" discipline of all. Break it down, and ask yourself what is "objectively true" about this. Whatever area of science you look at it, if you break it down sufficiently, it has got to do with molecules, atoms, subatomic particles ..... and then you get to the collapse of the wavefunction. And then all those theories in quantum physics come in - Bohm's interpretation, the CCC theory, the Many Worlds theory etc etc .....
And the LOA aspect comes to the fore again. It comes in different ways - eg Many Worlds theory doesn't suggest that thoughts create reality, but it does indicate that we exist in parallel dimensions, alternate realities etc etc .... And you see, it just makes all your ordinary notions of an "objective reality" collapse.