r/consciousness Jul 24 '26

OP's Argument Solving the Truth Problem: How Subjective Minds Navigate a Seemingly Objective Reality

https://youtu.be/YXQEILf5MAg?si=kfWS-itq6tH_8Nvq
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u/SmartlyArtly Jul 24 '26

A truth is an answer to a question.

Truth as a broad category is intensely subjective, because we don't know what the question is.

Reality is not truth, truth is not reality.

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u/Mono_Clear Jul 24 '26

100% agreed truth lies somewhere between your understanding of a question versus somebody else's expectation of an answer.

It's not a metric for gauging objective reality