Re: virus: Consensus Reality
Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@calweb.com)
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:30:27 -0700 (PDT)
> Consensus Reality! What a wonderful phrase. The truly amazing thing is
> that nobody mentioned the idea of Consensus Reality a few months ago,
> when the big Objective-Subjective War broke out. How odd that this kind
> of idea wasn't presented then, when nearly every post seemed to be about
> Objectivism. Of course, quite possibly nobody knew about Consensus Reality,
> but the idea of that sort of thing should have been mentioned by somebody,
> as much thought that was going along those lines. Perhaps we are witness to
> the "Can't see the forest for the trees." effect in action, and that we
> literally couldn't have come to such a conclusion until we backed off a bit.
I'm not sure why you should be so surprized. The idea is an ancient one
well known to all philosophy students, has been fashionable at various
points in history--but those who like the idea and support it, and those
who repudiate the concept, are well-known to each other and are unlikely
to ever convince each other. It's one of the many possible metaphysical
models, like solipsism, that can't really be disproved, so it isn't
really anything interesting.
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