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> What I was trying to say was that your motivations shift based on how you feel, and the more powerful the feeling, the potentially larger the shift ok, I und
by jamesrcole 10y ago
> What I was trying to say was that your motivations shift based on how you feel, and the more powerful the feeling, the potentially larger the shift
ok, I understand what you mean.
> I haven't quite figured out what a truth is yet. It's definitely a kind of message that emotionally resonates.
I believe that the universe exists independently of whatever view of it we have, and that at its foundations truth means the meaning of the information reflects how the universe is.
So in how I see it, the truth of something is orthogonal to its degree of emotional resonance.
- SapphireSun 10y ago> So in how I see it, the truth of something is orthogonal to its degree of emotional resonance. I too agree that the universe objectively exists separately from our minds. However, there are many facts about the world, most of them banal. The ones that are useful to us or make the world feel more understandable regardless of their ultimate truth are the ones that resonate. In particular, art often expresses emotional truths about ourselves and our relationships to others. "We're all doomed." "We're all saved." These have little objective reality but can powerfully affect us at the right moment.
- jamesrcole 10y agoMy view: no matter how powerfully something may resonate, this itself can not make it true.