I’m starting to wonder if there is anything that’s
real. (No, I’m not on drugs. My husband jokes, “No, just too much 7Up!” 😛) But math is real, right? It’s supposedly the most real thing we can point to.
Not so fast…
Per an excerpt from Wikipedia, “…mathematical thought is a
natural outgrowth of the human cognitive apparatus which finds itself in our
physical universe. For example, the abstract concept of number springs from the experience of counting discrete objects. It is held that
mathematics is not universal and does not exist in any real sense, other than
in human brains.”
Okay, a lot of 50È» words there. What I take it to mean is that we can’t
really touch a number, per se; we can
only experience math by proxy. And that
makes math just one more “unreal reality”; a human construct.
Which leads me to my frustration here, per Democritus. Let’s get down and dirty. Being the political animal that I am, take last
Monday’s Iowa Caucuses. First we hear it’s
an app problem. Then they say it’s a
flawed process problem, with second-round voting messing up first-round voting.
Then let’s pile on last night’s SOTU lies and made-for-TV "unreal" “reality
show.”
I’ll tell you, I am the point where I just don’t believe
anything I hear anymore. It’s become so
tribal; so "alt-reality" versus "my reality."
So, question(s): Is there anything that’s really real? As Democritus suspects, is life all just a personal opinion, alt or
otherwise? If objective truths are countered by
alt subjective truths, can we believe anything to be the
truth anymore??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM1Ylv7-DA8
