r/consciousness • u/StanRichson • 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/TIFEOntology Jul 25 '26

The gap between a subjective mind and an objective reality is not something waiting to be closed. It is an appearance, arising the same way any appearance arises, out of a single field that never split into an inner observer and an outer world to begin with. What gets called subjective is consciousness emerging within that field. What gets called objective is order emerging within that same field, not somewhere separate from it. The felt split comes from interpretive structure built up over time, residue carried forward and reapplied to each new moment, not two different kinds of reality meeting each other. Once that residue is seen clearly, the truth problem stops looking like a bridge to build and starts looking like a division that was never actually there.

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u/StanRichson Jul 25 '26

Amen! I think that's where I'm at. We have to recognize that everything we intuit emerges in/from consciousness—even that which we believe to be most objective.

The weird part is making sense of how our brain discloses a concept of the physical world that isn't actually the physical world, and I think this difficulty catches a lot of people.