Feelings aren't facts 🌎
" ... to live in society but not of it."
—Obituary for my brother
> in my eyes | misfire
But my experiences feel like the truth, you say.
Feelings are valid. But feelings aren't facts.
- Our perception of the world leads us to believe that our feelings and emotions are objective truths.
- But the truth as we know it is subjective and individually interpreted by each of the 8.2 billion people on earth.
Strides made by scientists have enabled us to more deeply investigate perception, thinking errors, fallacies, illusions, cognitive biases, and mental misfires in our interpretations of the world.
It begins with the inner workings of the human mind.
A falling tree can't make noise without us present. Color can't be seen without us present.
We might believe the naturally occurring voices in our heads are directing our behaviors. But an estimated one in ten Americans doesn't have an inner voice (a fact that continues to blow my mind).
The ancient philosopher Plato concluded that true, or objective, reality lived beyond our eyes, ears, nose, and perceptions. Professional thinkers have explored this conclusion ever since.
What's real? Can anything be called real if we can only individually experience it?
- next time "The stars are aligned just for you."
- listening Blonde Redhead "Misery is a Butterfly"
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