Is it time when Occam’s razor invokes itself ...
"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." - Winston Churchill.
Whatever you may believe … Indeed there is no clear definition for pseudo- reality. Deliberate or not, every individual is steeped into it. And then we still have to answer what is Reality or truth independent of humanity. People call hallucinations (or distinct cousins of it like dreams and personal influence on space- time) of mind as pseudo-reality. But this pseudo-reality is still comprehensible to man. We can still theorise why it happens and tell whether someone is living in that world.
Descartes said, in perhaps the most famous quote in philosophy, “I think and hence I exist”, and hence began the PR. This PR stems from human mind which manifests itself through human actions and thoughts. We can call it perception, deliberate distortion, a system of deceit, but it definitely is a part of every one’s life. This is the PR which is dependent on human perception and choices, leading to personal truths (and negations) or personal realities. But is it the only aspect of PR wherein we deal with other human beings and conceptualize our life
One question which I asked, and Mudit didn’t talk about was, what is the reality (or pseudo-reality) which exists independent of human factor?
Tagore argues about the existence of a “Human Truth”, something of which science ( [Human] Scientific truth) is a subset and logic a tool (and ofcourse Occam’s razor) to determine it. “Science is concerned with that which is not confined to individuals, it is the impersonal human world of truths.”, and hence is beyond perception.
Einstein himself proved that, we can never define a system by being in the reference frame of the same system. So, he is only right when he says that he cannot prove what the reality of human life is. But unlike Beauty, which is nothing but just a human feeling, felt by human heart and mind when confronted by perfect harmony, “there is a reality independent of man, and hence there should also be a truth relative to this reality”.
Definitely, As long as we keep employing human organs (brain) and logic to find the truth, the truth will indeed be human. But there should be no refuting the fact that there is a world as a reality independent of the human factor.
We can argue to say that at times, science and logic are able to help us predict certain scientific theories which prove themselves later. Infact, Einstein’s relativity theory was verified much later than its formulation. This means that there should be some connection between human mind and the world as it exists. If human logic is different from the logic of the reality beyond humanity, the reality as conceived by humans won’t exist beyond humanity.
Is it that, what ever a human mind can deduce through human logic, exists? For logic, and science alike, is based on premises. If the premise is true the conclusion through logic should also be true. Which makes me believe there exists a world which is based on logic which the human mind is capable of dealing.
Will this reality collapse with fall of humanity? If all the humans would cease to exist without changing anything else in the current world by any external factor, will the non-living/non-human objects present in this reality, continue to exist. As, if they do, it will be proved that there is reality beyond humanity, and indeed human logic was nothing but a subset of universal logic (the part which was comprehensible to humans) and human scientific truth would prove to be universal. And if they don’t, it will mean that all this, which we call as universe, and send a satellite and set up space telescopes to look around it and the stars which we believe exist many light years away, and all other small and big things were nothing but a mass hallucination of human minds. What a terrible waste of time it will prove to be.
Is this the time when Occam’s razor invokes itself ...
Whatever you may believe … Indeed there is no clear definition for pseudo- reality. Deliberate or not, every individual is steeped into it. And then we still have to answer what is Reality or truth independent of humanity. People call hallucinations (or distinct cousins of it like dreams and personal influence on space- time) of mind as pseudo-reality. But this pseudo-reality is still comprehensible to man. We can still theorise why it happens and tell whether someone is living in that world.
Descartes said, in perhaps the most famous quote in philosophy, “I think and hence I exist”, and hence began the PR. This PR stems from human mind which manifests itself through human actions and thoughts. We can call it perception, deliberate distortion, a system of deceit, but it definitely is a part of every one’s life. This is the PR which is dependent on human perception and choices, leading to personal truths (and negations) or personal realities. But is it the only aspect of PR wherein we deal with other human beings and conceptualize our life
One question which I asked, and Mudit didn’t talk about was, what is the reality (or pseudo-reality) which exists independent of human factor?
Tagore argues about the existence of a “Human Truth”, something of which science ( [Human] Scientific truth) is a subset and logic a tool (and ofcourse Occam’s razor) to determine it. “Science is concerned with that which is not confined to individuals, it is the impersonal human world of truths.”, and hence is beyond perception.
Einstein himself proved that, we can never define a system by being in the reference frame of the same system. So, he is only right when he says that he cannot prove what the reality of human life is. But unlike Beauty, which is nothing but just a human feeling, felt by human heart and mind when confronted by perfect harmony, “there is a reality independent of man, and hence there should also be a truth relative to this reality”.
Definitely, As long as we keep employing human organs (brain) and logic to find the truth, the truth will indeed be human. But there should be no refuting the fact that there is a world as a reality independent of the human factor.
We can argue to say that at times, science and logic are able to help us predict certain scientific theories which prove themselves later. Infact, Einstein’s relativity theory was verified much later than its formulation. This means that there should be some connection between human mind and the world as it exists. If human logic is different from the logic of the reality beyond humanity, the reality as conceived by humans won’t exist beyond humanity.
Is it that, what ever a human mind can deduce through human logic, exists? For logic, and science alike, is based on premises. If the premise is true the conclusion through logic should also be true. Which makes me believe there exists a world which is based on logic which the human mind is capable of dealing.
Will this reality collapse with fall of humanity? If all the humans would cease to exist without changing anything else in the current world by any external factor, will the non-living/non-human objects present in this reality, continue to exist. As, if they do, it will be proved that there is reality beyond humanity, and indeed human logic was nothing but a subset of universal logic (the part which was comprehensible to humans) and human scientific truth would prove to be universal. And if they don’t, it will mean that all this, which we call as universe, and send a satellite and set up space telescopes to look around it and the stars which we believe exist many light years away, and all other small and big things were nothing but a mass hallucination of human minds. What a terrible waste of time it will prove to be.
Is this the time when Occam’s razor invokes itself ...
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