Objective Reality

Imagine you are wearing purple sunglasses. You might think the whole world is purple, but it is actually just your glasses! Objective reality is the world without any glasses on at all. It is the truth that stays the same no matter who is looking at it. Most of the time we forget we are wearing glasses because we have had them on since we were born. Learning about this helps you realize that other people see different colors because they are wearing different glasses.

The truth that stays the same no matter who is looking at it. You have never seen the world. You have seen your brain's interpretation of the world. Light hits your retina. Your retina sends electrical signals. Your brain builds an image. The image is not the world. The image is a painting your brain made using the world as a reference. Two people can stand in the same room and experience two completely different realities. Neither is lying. Both are painting. Objective reality is the room before anyone painted it. And no one has ever seen that room. We are all painting from the same model. But we are all painting different pictures. Humility is knowing your painting is not the model.

Kant's Ding an sich: an external world exists independently of observation, but access is always mediated by sensory apparatus and cognitive structures. Humility is knowing your painting is not the model.

SOUND: The steady unceasing hum of a distant city or forest: the sound that exists whether or not you are listening.

SMELL: Petrichor — rain on dry earth: a scent that does not need your opinion to arrive.

TASTE: Pure cool water: the taste of something that has not been filtered through a story.

TOUCH: The weight of a smooth stone in your palm: gravity not caring what you believe about it.

SIGHT: A star in the night sky that exists whether you look or not: the original fact.

BODY: Your feet pressing against the solid ground: the body confirming what the mind debates.

Music: The Pretender by Lewis Capaldi

Music: Name by The Goo Goo Dolls

Music: Better Than Love by Griffin House

Music: Time by Pink Floyd

Music: Inner City Blues by Marvin Gaye

Part of Perception & The Filter — CONSCIOUSNESS — Education Revelation