we can never stand outside of human
conversation and talk about reality as
it is or truth as it is. we never we
never come into contact with naked truth.
all we have is our conversation and our
tools of augmenting our conversation
all we really have that the currency of
truth is whatever successfully passes
muster in a conversation. so I say
something that I think is true and it
seems to work for you
we are playing similar
language game and some people disagree
they criticize what we are claiming to
be true and we go back and forth and all
we ever have is this kind of
ever-expanding horizon line of
successful conversations that allow us
to do things that are very persuasive
we are designed by the happenstance of
evolution to function within a very
narrow band of of light intensities
physical parameters the fact that we are
able to succeed to the degree that we
have been in creating a vision of
scientific truth and the structure of
the cosmos at large that radically
exceeds those narrow parameters that is
a is a kind of miracle it's an amazing
fact about us that seems not to be true
remotely true of any other species we
know about
it's possible for everyone to be
mistaken
it's possible for there to be a
consensus around truths that are in fact
not true it's possible to not know what
you're missing there's a horizon of
cognition beyond which we can't
currently see and we may be right or wrong
about
we think that exceeds our grasp at the moment
consciousness is the one thing in this
universe that can't be an illusion is
the only thing that you can be
absolutely sure exists at this moment
