Is reality subjective or objective?

[Flame War Vet]

I punch every single midwit that implies that reality is subjective. "Oopsie-daisy, are you going to tell me that was only your imagination you fucking asshole?!"

 

[biglurker]

Reality is inherently objective because to be reality it needs to be set in stone.
All the questions we have about reality are about the inner mechanisms we have not discovered or are difficult to see.

 

[Brightstar777]

I punch every single midwit that implies that reality is subjective. "Oopsie-daisy, are you going to tell me that was only your imagination you fucking asshole?!"

Topkek

 

[skykiii]

Making a less silly answer this time, I recall a quote by (I believe) Philip K. Dick:

"Reality is that which, once you stop believing in it, does not go away."

If he's right then that pretty much settles the question... though it would be funny if the best answer we got came from a drug-addict who believed he was communicating with aliens.

 

[Kovachs]

Reality is subjective, it's just that you aren't the subject.

 

[Caesar]

There is an objective truth. Wether or not your personal senses are representing that accurately is another question.

 

[LurkTrawl]

It's both. Objective reality has primacy over your personal experienced reality.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

Thales had it figured out when he said that reality is water. The past 2500 years have just been humans getting further and further away from that fundamental truth.

It's technically not wrong, oxygen is like water, except in gas form and thus not as dense as water. Imagine if you could "swim" mid-air.

Also must be a mind-blowing revelation in spongebob, the only show where there can be water underwater and fire underwater, I'm having an aneurysm just formulating the thought.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Only philosophers and other charlatans cares about these mental gymnastics.

 

[N Space]

oxygen is like water, except in gas form and thus not as dense as water

The only similarity I can think of is that both are transparent as liquids with a mild blue tint, other than that they're chemically completely different.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Only philosophers and other charlatans cares about these mental gymnastics.

Well, it's fun to consider such things when one has a few moments with nothing to do but waste some time.

No one should take is too seriously.

 

[cigint]

The midwit answer is that there is a shared objective reality that can be observed via the scientific method, and then optionally we can say there are maybe billions of subjective realities as well.

Counterintuitively, this is the opposite of what we can say for sure. We know for sure that there is one subjective reality, that's the one you're currently experiencing. The case may be you're a prisoner in Plato's cave, or you're in the matrix, or you're a Bolzmann brain in space, or you really are a human being on earth, but there is a system in which the sensations you're experiencing are arising, and everyone else is either real or illusory. It is the shared, objective, imperatively measurable reality which may not exist at all. You can build all the particle colliders and gravitational wave detectors you want, but you could just be measuring this shit in a coma dream.

 

[crowabunga]

I punch every single midwit that implies that reality is subjective. "Oopsie-daisy, are you going to tell me that was only your imagination you fucking asshole?!"

Martial epistemology and ontology, based.