{"id":4148,"date":"2021-07-13T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2021-07-13T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T03:23:00","slug":"what-if-there-isnt-a-objective-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/tinfoil-hat\/what-if-there-isnt-a-objective-reality","title":{"rendered":"What if there *isn&#8217;t* a objective reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the topics I do occasionally worry about is what if there just <I>isn&#8217;t<\/I> a objective reality? Since we know that our minds are easily powerful enough to generate a experience of reality being created out of whole cloth, this seems possible. It would explain how for some people the Jan 6 USA misadventure was a bunch of tourists on the lawn while for a bunch of other people it was a armed insurrection, for example. It could of course go a lot further than that. It&#8217;s a worrisome concept, because it can&#8217;t be disproven &#8211; but if there isn&#8217;t a objective reality I&#8217;d really like to reprogram the simulator so that *my* reality is more what I&#8217;d like to be doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the topics I do occasionally worry about is what if there just isn&#8217;t a objective reality? Since we know that our minds are easily powerful enough to generate a experience of reality being created out of whole cloth, this seems possible. It would explain how for some people the Jan 6 USA misadventure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12,16,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}