We tend to believe that physics describe the objective reality, in which our mechanisms of perception emerge, giving rise to perceptions and language.
But in fact, supposing that an objective reality exists, it has to go through the filters of our perception to be perceived, and language to be expressed in concepts and theories.
What's more: our perception is largely determined by the concepts we learn. And language is merely a consensus.
So the physical world, perception and language emerge and evolve together. None of them is real.
Remember when we believed that our planet was the center of the universe? It's now clearly false and a case of anthropocentrism, a cognitive bias.
Can you see a current instance of anthropocentrism?
The belief that the laws of physics describe the objective reality, and that the physical world is the objective reality.
Glum-Incident-8546 t1_ixgjtbs wrote
Reply to /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | November 21, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
Objective Reality
We tend to believe that physics describe the objective reality, in which our mechanisms of perception emerge, giving rise to perceptions and language.
But in fact, supposing that an objective reality exists, it has to go through the filters of our perception to be perceived, and language to be expressed in concepts and theories.
What's more: our perception is largely determined by the concepts we learn. And language is merely a consensus.
So the physical world, perception and language emerge and evolve together. None of them is real.
Remember when we believed that our planet was the center of the universe? It's now clearly false and a case of anthropocentrism, a cognitive bias.
Can you see a current instance of anthropocentrism?
Now good luck with that :)