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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian  What see is a direct projection of our own consciousness. Nothing else exists except what you percieve right this very second. So if you don't see your friend, hear them, touch, or smell them, then they don't exist right now.
When you understand that you are the ultimate creator, then everything makes a lot more sense  |
I understand that many subjective realists see the world this way, and the objective realists see the world the opposite way, but the thing they both have in common about their belief systems is belief itself. If someone is not in your viscinity, or in observable range, subjectivists will assume they cease to exist, and the objectivist will assume they continue to exist in a percieved outer reality somewhere. In my opinion, the situation is very much like
Schrodingers Cat -- both realities are equally real and present...until observed.
This is not to take anything away from subjective realists, their view is just as valid as anyone elses, I just think it is interesting to think about and bring to awareness. And if one is a subjectivist, this post was written by you subconsciously anyhow.
I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation when Guinan (drink server) and Data (the android) are looking at a Nebula cloud and Guinan is trying to point out an animal in the cloud. Data says, "
It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive can sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment. Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit."
Memorable Trekky quotes aside, there are times when living in an objective reality is good and desirable, just as the same is true for subjective reality. At least in an objective reality I'm not likely to run into freaky manifestations of my own inner self
. I can just observe how the world works independent of my control. On the other side of the coin, subjective reality moves my locus of control inward, giving me a wonderful sense of power. In that reality, it can be fun to see what my deeper self has to say to me.