Define objectivism

Understanding
1. Everything we sense is skewed by our perception of its meaning.

2. Some of the things we sense are frequently also sensed by other people, as far as our perceptions can distinguish.

3. Seeing different perspectives of an elephant would allow the perception of different ideas about what an elephant is (if one person explores only the trunk and another explores only the tail), but only up to the point at which the two or more observers explore exactly the same aspect of the elephant. When they both explore the tail or both explore the trunk, the reports and descriptions they produce, and our skewed perception of those reports, reveal that there appears to be statistically significant evidence to believe in the idea that there is a consistent reality which is common to all observers. That reality is an entity called an elephant in this case.

4. When we try to reapply this belief in another circumstance with a new observer, we are able to predict what kinds of things they will say about the trunk and what kinds of things they will say about the tail. My skewed perception of this data provides further statistical evidence to support the belief that a reality exists which is common and consistent to all observers.

5. We can do engineering with these accepted beliefs about reality. The success of this engineering gives us further statistically significant support for the idea that an objective reality exists. Computers work extremely reliably, and in the same manner as programmed, no matter who uses them. This implies that our beliefs about their components are practically useful and statistically consistent to extremely high precision.

An objective reality cannot be proven. It can only be disproven, but nobody has yet managed to disprove the existence of an objective reality (relative to their skewed perception of such a disproof).

An objective reality is defined as the consistent description of reality which is common to all observers.

Objectivism, therefore, can be defined as the position of holding the belief that a consistent reality which is common to all observers exists. Objectivism is also the act of being an advocate of such a belief.

In order to disprove a consistent reality you would need to see statistically significant evidence which shows that certain groups of people can precisely draw, measure and describe the tail of an elephant in one manner whilst another group of people will consistently draw, measure and describe the tail of the same elephant in a clearly very different manner. Such a difference has so far always been attributable to a well understood perceptive flaw in the observer such as colour blindness, synaesthesia, numbness, etc which in itself is a consistent property of that observer from one second to the next. Taking these effects into account does not imply the existence of an inconsistent objective reality. As far as can be determined from ones skewed perception of the logic and of the evidence and statistics, it seems reasonable to accept that there is no such difference in reality between any two groups of people.

What physics has found is that there is a stable consistent reality which all observers can agree upon to very high precision and to very high statistical significance.

All that we've come to believe to be statistically consistent and significant "fact" in biology is also logically consistent with the belief that there is a consistent reality : animals develop a consistent identity relative to themselves and to each other. A lion looks consistent to an antelope: If the antelope has seen the lion killing a member of its species before, it'll know that the same lion on a different day will be just as dangerous because of its teeth, jaws, claws and aggression.

The laws of evolution and the way we understand them to have played out seem to imply with high statistical significance that a consistent reality has existed for at least the last 4 billion years.

Astronomical observations of the stars (which can show us the universe as it was tens of billions of years ago) also give us statistically significant supporting evidence for the idea that an objective reality exists and has existed for all that time until now. They have not yet found any counterexamples which disprove the existence of a consistent reality.

According to the relativity theories of Galileo and Einstein, the laws of physics are the same for all observers.

Special and general relativity do point out that certain aspects of our objective reality can seem to be squashed if you place two observers under sufficiently different observation conditions but relativity is still consistent with an objective reality: Two observers who are brought into the same conditions perceive the same things about reality and the laws of physics are the same for all observers regardless of their conditions.

Quantum mechanics might be starting to hint that reality at the extremely precise atom and subatomic levels is composed of more than one consistent reality which exist as parallel universes alongside ours but so far quantum mechanics is still consistent with an objective reality because all quantum mechanics scientists can still agree about what they observe. They can all still recreate each other's findings. No differences can be found up to the precision of their measuring instruments and their skewed abilities to read those measuring instruments.

Objectivism is trained into all scientists by the sheer statistical significance of the observations in favour of such a conclusion. It's sensible and useful to think objectively. The alternative is to think subjectively, but at the moment we can only know our own subjective thoughts with certainty. Until brain scanning technologies become more advanced and until the mind is understood to extremely high precision and extremely high statistical significance we won't know the subjective thoughts of others with certainty and so trying to think and communicate "subjectively" is more difficult. It's easier to communicate with people about our objective reality which we can all agree upon, so long as we agree on the definitions of the words we use. Science makes progress by first ensuring that everyone adopts and agrees upon the same precise definitions for particular words. If words are left open to interpretation then arguments will emerge because of a miscommunication created by the inconsistent definitions held by those doing the communicating.

Subjective reality is part of our objective reality. The brain creates our multiple perceptions or descriptions of reality. As far as can be rigorously determined so far, based on mountains of evidence, our subjective perception of reality is subordinate to the objective reality that we can usually agree upon if we communicate effectively. We can change our subjective reality by taking a drug. The change in our perception of reality and our perception of our own feelings is consistent with people who are biologically and chemically similar to us. Our subjectivity can be fully understood. Our consciousness is bound by the laws of physics and can also be fully understood. When we fully understand it we will be able to do useful engineering which demonstrates our understanding (which demonstrates the usefulness and rationality of believing in the consistent laws which led to such engineering).

Given your own perspective you can say that over the course of your entire life you've been presented with a very large body of data and observations from reports of the experiments and observations of other people. Through your own personal experience of interacting with the world and communicating with others and arranging to meet in particular places and through ever more precise definitions and descriptions of objects which are agreed upon by other people you've only ever been able to support the idea that there is a consistent reality - that there is an objective reality and that objectivism is not only a practically convenient belief, it is an undeniably reasonable belief to uphold - until disproven by statistically significant evidence seen by you from your first-person perspective.

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