Truth: relative or absolute?

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eThneoLgrRnae
Is the truth relative or absolute? How you answer this question shapes the way you look at the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMzhzqoQh8c

Putinbot1
Well on a larger scale we probably don't truly see reality, so everything is relative.

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/does-reality-exist

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A DNA helix
Did we evolve to see reality as it exists? No, says cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman.
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
KEVIN DICKINSON
09 August, 2019
Donald Hoffman theorizes experiencing reality is disadvantageous to evolutionary fitness.
His hypothesis calls for ditching the objectivity of matter and space-time and replacing them with a mathematical theory of consciousness.
If correct, it could help us progress such intractable questions as the mind-body problem and the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Adam_PoE
This belongs in the Philosophy forum.

Surtur
If God is real and I'm not being allowed to perceive reality the way it is, I reserve the right to punch him in the face.

Flyattractor
For the Reading Impaired Here is a Vid on the Same Topic.

pMzhzqoQh8c

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