Why It’s Good to Be Wrong

Re:Why It’s Good to Be Wrong by pixl97 on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:40PM (#8895559)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel

>The idea does not necessarily imply that there is no objective truth; rather that our access to it is mediated through our senses, experience, conditioning, prior beliefs, and other non-objective factors. The implied individual world each person occupies is said to be their reality tunnel.

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Re:Why It’s Good to Be Wrong by vanderZwan on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:50PM (#8895951)

And after that, kick things up a notch with the Boltzmann Brain paradox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

> The paradox states that if one considers the probability of our current situation as self-aware entities embedded in an organized environment, versus the probability of stand-alone self-aware entities existing in a featureless thermodynamic "soup", then the latter should be vastly more probable than the former.

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