Thursday 15 July 2010

主觀的客觀世界

很個人的看法。

這世界沒有客觀的客觀,只有主觀的客觀。
有說科學是客觀的,但當代科學理論只是在我們現在所擁有的智慧,時間,空間是客觀的對。
如果這個世界沒有人或其他有智慧的生物,那就會有客觀的客觀。

舉幾個例:
一。 從 Plato 的 caveman 到現在的 Matrix Trilogy 問的問題都是一樣:
「到底是周莊夢蝶,還是蝶夢周莊?」
二。 前 Galileo 的世界裡面,地球是方的。
三。 New Scientist 有一個文章是這樣的:
「有理論指出人類所熟識的現實,可能是黑洞釋放出來的影像。就好像說,我們認識的世界只是一個從透影機播放出來,然後透放到螢幕上,也就是說,我們都只是一個另外一個現實做出來的影像。」

1 comment:

C.Y. said...

Hello.

Subjective can mean different things:

1) Of or relating to a subject (ex. a person)
2) an opinion/taste/preferences/believes

2) is a subset of 1). As I told you before, if what you meant by subjective is 1), then obviously, our knowledge is subjective to us as an individual, as a human race. However, what you are
claiming is 2), that reality is only our believes in different times and culture. What this implies is that no one is more right than the others, since it is merely an opinion, a belief.

That seems improbable. It would be dubious to claim that our knowledge of the world is no more accurate than Galileo's time.

Let me just take this point:

前 Galileo 的世界裡面,地球是方的。

Premises:

1)Before Galileo, the Earth is thought to be flat.
2)After Galileo, the Earth is thought to be round.

Conclusion: The Earth's shape is neither flat nor round; it is only a matter of opinion and what people believed.

Is that true? Does it follow from your premises that the Earth is shapeless? And that in claiming the Earth round we are no more correct than when our ancestors claim the Earth as flat?

(Are you going to use imaginary scenarios again? They are generally not very reliable.)

Furthermore, there are indeed objective answers to questions.

For example, is there life on other planets? People may have different opinions to this question, but obviously, they can't all be right. Either there is, or there isn't.

(Please don't ask me what I meant by life. That is not relevant to our argument here.)


Finally, it is also important to distinguish between these two ideas:

1) There is an objective reality, but we do not have the ability to know it.

2) There is no objective reality.

C.Y.