The Trouble with Reality | Meghan O’Gieblyn
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The Trouble with Reality | Meghan O’Gieblyn
The true trauma of disenchantment is that the world, as seen through the lens of modern science, is devoid of intrinsic meaning.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Kant believed that our minds create all our experience, including space and time. There may be a reality out there, but we can perceive it only through the filter of our subjective perceptions, which means that no one can ever know what’s absolutely true.
Martha Beck • The Way of Integrity: Finding the path to your true self
Reading contradictory meanings into the events we confront and the different ways we interpret them? And even finding that what we think we’ve been seeing is not actually what we’ve been seeing but something else entirely? No, you’re not going mad.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians.It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is.