Tenebrous
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Oh don't our feeble minds yearn for such an answer.
Today I will present something that I believe all of us should embrace, and not only with our minds, but with our hearts. It is something that I have pondered upon for many years and believe that I have finally arrived at a steady conclusion. Of course this conclusion was reached with the help of several people, namely some YouTuber friends and I will provide their channel if you would like.
Why is there violence in the world?
Why do people hate each other?
Why does everyone have different opinions?
How do we solve these issues to provide a more stable and friendly environment for all?
Let's begin with some philosophical reasoning.
As some of you probably know, Descartes was a famous french philosopher who lived during the 1600s.
Here is an example of one of his arguments and it will lead me into my discussion
"Descartes uses three very similar arguments to open all our knowledge to doubt: The dream argument, the deceiving God argument, and the evil demon argument. The basis idea in each of these is that we never perceive external objects directly, but only through the contents of our own mind, the images the external objects produce in us. Since sense experience never puts us in contact with the objects themselves, but only with mental images, sense perception provides no certainty that there is anything in the external world that corresponds to the images we have in our mind. Descartes introduces dreams, a deceiving God, and an evil demon as ways of motivating this doubt in the veracity of our sense experience."
The idea that us, as individual beings can only prove ourselves to be in existence is centuries old.
It is called Solipsism, and actually has some provable basis.
Imagine you are visiting the most beautiful place (or what you subjectively think is, I'll get into this later) in the world. Let's say it kinda looks a bit like this:
And you must think to yourself, what a wondrously colorful and amazing world I'm living in. On the contrary, there are problems with this assumption. When you look at an object, photons (particles of light) bounce off of whatever you're looking at, enter your retina, and go through a series of middle-men before your brain finally perceives an image.
All pretty standard stuff right?
Yep but now it's time for sh*t to get weird, so let's play a little game okay?
Step 1. Pick any object in the picture, whatever you choose to.
Step 2. Imagine that the object was removed, logically the object would go away.
Step 3. Now imagine if the signal traveling through your brain's synapses was cut off, the object would disappear as well.
So that means that we could be living in the matrix?!11?1?!1?1
Actually, yes. But that is a topic for another time and this has much more deep implications for our life.
This means that everything you see may not be absolutely what you are compelled to believe it to be.
Everyone, because they experience the world differently, has different thoughts and opinions on topics. This is known as subjectivity. Subjectivity is the main cause of all violence in the world, think of world war II, think of isis, think of ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that has to do with suffering and pain and you will find that it has to do with someone having a different opinion than someone else.
So how do we solve this issue you may ask?
Well let's begin by imagining a fish in a bowl
This fish, if it was smart enough, would tell people that the world around him is curved because of the shape of his bowl.
The human on the other hand, would argue differently as intuition tells us that the human is correct because he/she exists outside of the bowl.
But has I proved earlier, it is impossible to argue that one point of view is "better" or "worse" than the other, because human sight relies on various different mechanisms contrary to any other animal or being (and perhaps ourselves) and thus any animal would argue differently. Therefore, there is no correct answer.
Let's imagine that a baseball was pitched outside of the bowl.
The fish would argue that the baseball's pitch is curved, because of the way his bowl bends reality
While the human would argue that the baseball files straight
This is a prime example of subjectivity.
So how would both the human and fish reach a conclusion you may ask?
It is through the usage of mathematics and science.
Let's say that we had a really smart fish which was able to derive an equation pertaining to the curvature of the baseball.
Now both the human and fish can agree on the trajectory of the baseball.
When someone says that DNA is complex in order to provide evidence for an intelligent design, they are presenting a fallible subjective viewpoint. People say that they have talked to spirits, or demons, once again this is a fallible subjective view. If it is not describable in mathematics, it does not exist.
This is one of the best examples of how mathematics and science need to be embraced more. I would love a world where everyone can embrace each other's subjective views and decide that the only objective reality that exists is one that is provable mathematically. It would be a peaceful world, with myriads of knowledge everywhere.
There is much in our world that we do not know, the frontier is still out there, and it's our job to find it.
