I don’t believe in objective truth, when understood as mind or society independent access to reality ‘out there’. All knowledge is conditioned by our location in Samsara, of finite beings with a limited horizon. However, this isn’t a purely negative comment, for our finite resources also reveal the world to us in ways that wouldn’t be available to a deity. Simply put, we see the world in living color because of a highly developed visual system. At the same time, devoting that much brain space to vision means we can’t smell the world as dogs and sharks do. The visual shape of a room is effortlessly available to us but we have no clue as to the smell shape of the same room, as canines clearly perceive.
Newsletter #49: Against Discipline
Newsletter #49: Against Discipline
Newsletter #49: Against Discipline
I don’t believe in objective truth, when understood as mind or society independent access to reality ‘out there’. All knowledge is conditioned by our location in Samsara, of finite beings with a limited horizon. However, this isn’t a purely negative comment, for our finite resources also reveal the world to us in ways that wouldn’t be available to a deity. Simply put, we see the world in living color because of a highly developed visual system. At the same time, devoting that much brain space to vision means we can’t smell the world as dogs and sharks do. The visual shape of a room is effortlessly available to us but we have no clue as to the smell shape of the same room, as canines clearly perceive.