Why is ideology like a prism?

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Red Nemesis
Question: Is it possible (neuro-scientifically or otherwise) to see life without a filter? Can humans experience objective reality? (Assuming, of course, that an objective reality exists...)

Symmetric Chaos
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Question: Is it possible (neuro-scientifically or otherwise) to see life without a filter?

Any passive means of data collection would seem to do that. A camera isn't looking for it's friends it's just looking and gives each particle of its view equal weight.

Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Can humans experience objective reality?

Experiencing something, in my opinion, requires putting something of ones self into what is perceived. So as far as I'm concerned truly experiencing objective reality is impossible.

inimalist
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Can humans experience objective reality?

no

the very pathways that information is sent through in our brains are formed based on previous experience with stimuli and prior information processing.

Much of what people believe is based upon those physical pathways, and at the very least, shows that a personal bias is actually a physical thing.

Mindship
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Question: Is it possible (neuro-scientifically or otherwise) to see life without a filter? Can humans experience objective reality? (Assuming, of course, that an objective reality exists...) The following is based on your "or otherwise"...

According to transcendent reality maps, objective reality is experienced when the illusion of the individual self is finally subsumed into Pure / Absolute / (pick your own adjective) Consciousness. This, so to speak, is the purpose of meditation: to transcend all "filters" associated with individual consciousness.

Whether or not this is what actually occurs is another story.

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