> >"Objectivity" is an illusion; all we have are intersubjective
> >agreements, to greater or lesser degrees of consensus.
>
> Sorry, but we do not have to agree about anything concerning the baseball
> bat I can bounce off your head.
>
I might agree it rocked my skull and you might agree it stung your
hands, but what about its color, or its trajectory relative to your or
my frame of reference? The abstract, perspectiveless, godlike
spacetime we cognitively construct from a multiplicity of concrete
human perspectives is a Euclidean illusion, as are the Newtonian
matter/energy interactions we observe from them. That is not to say
that they are not useful; it is to say that Riemannian/Einsteinian
spacetime and Heisenbergian quantum physics can explain the
interaction of the bat and my skull not only on the macro level (that
of my perception), but also on the cosmic and quantum levels, which
Newton and Euclid cannot; yet their curved space and statistical
nature are, though mathematically and experimentally correct, still
perceptually counterintuitive. Also please see Kurt Godel and the
Copenhagen Interpretation before attempting to assert subjectivity-
independent absolutes in such a ham-batted, pseudo-Zenlike
manner.
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