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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreadPirateMurphy" data-source="post: 4830626" data-attributes="member: 20715">From this, I take it to mean that you feel that there is a distinct, objective shared reality in the actual universe.I don't know that it is true.  If it is true, I don't know that it matters.Each of us interprets reality based on our sensory input.  We see different aspects of the world than others, and we can interpret what we sense in different ways.  Reality is subjective.  I'm of the opinion, for example, that insane people are acting rationally based upon their perceptions, and the perceptions are what diverge from the norm.  How would you act if you actually started hearing disembodied voices telling you how to behave?What I take that to mean is that we can only know "reality" based on an approximation.  This is actually not too far from the way quantum mechanics views reality, if I'm understanding what I've read about it.The downside to this view is that it tends to remove a degree of certainty and security from my worldview.  The upside is it tends to help me be less judgemental of the opinions of others, since I know they may be seeing reality in a way that's different from my perspective.Now, I don't qualify everything I say based on that belief, because it would be socially unworkable.  Wife:  "Is it raining outside?"  Me:  "Based upon my observations, it appears to be raining within the area visible to me and based upon the commonly accepted definition of the word 'rain.'  The weatherman yesterday expressed an educated opinion that we would see rain for most of the day in this general geographic region.  I suggest, based upon the preponderance of evidence, that you would be more comfortable with a rain jacket."It becomes more relevant when we start talking about things like "canon" and "continuity."  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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