Truth

Map of Concept

There are many interpretations of truth.

Definitions and Properties

Invariance

From C - Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Truth is that which remains invariant within a multitude of variance.

This is what science aims to do - across all variations, what are the real patterns that still remain?

From B - Opening the Hand of Thought

Truth is Ungraspable

Logical Truth

  • Categories and Similarity. ‘True’ similarities are not what define categories.

Understanding and Truth

  • Understanding and Truth

Getting There

Mindset

We are the blind who tries and figure out the elephant by touch.

Related To: Modelling Reality MOC
Created On: 2020-09-05 from C - Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Last Updated On: 2020-11-20

Linked References

Common truth is found through the collective

Things like science is established on the basis of collective judgement and belief.

“Common” is used in the sense of common reality. If everyone agrees that something is true, regardless of its ‘cosmic’ truth or fullness of reality, it becomes the truth for us.

Reason doesn’t help us reach undeniable ‘truths’, but gives our most reliable method for having the largest amount of people reach the same conclusions.

What we deem real often has to be checked with disconnected others as evidence of our own version.

See also/ References:

  • From Anil Seth’s Ted Talk

    We’re all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.

  • Our mind holds only a simulation of reality

Related To: Rational Reasoning vs Emotions and Intuitions MOC
Created On: 2020-09-03 from B - The Righteous Mind
Last Updated On: 2020-09-06

Modelling Reality

Reality Proper

  • D - Full Reality

  • D - Common Reality

  • D - Accidental vs Absolute Reality

  • D - Realness

Simulations

  • D - Simulation

  • E - When a simulation reaches the complexity of that which it’s simulating, it transcends onto the same plane of existence

  • E - Simulations are lower resolution gestural reproductions of reality

  • E - Our mind holds only a simulation of reality

  • E - The computational medium is simulation

Truth

  • Truth MOC

Misc

  • E - Given the same input, context changes the output

  • E - Everything stands in relation to everything else

  • E - Physical units are residues of human interaction

  • E - Common truth is found through the collective

Full Models

  • SPIO Model MOC
Truth rests in absolute reality

Truth is that which does not change under variance - it lives in absolute reality.

We ought to live in harmony with such truths. Anything rooted in accidental reality will inevitably collapse.

See also/ References:

Any real or absolute truth must consist of living out our lives in accord with the inescapable realities that come no matter how much we oppose them. […] If happiness means having plenty of money and good health, then by that very definition, you're only going to hit rock bottom when it's your time to From Kōshō Uchiyama, Opening the Hand of Thought, chapter 1

Related To: Truth MOC
Created On: 2020-10-12 from B - Opening the Hand of Thought
Last Updated On: 2020-10-12

Our beliefs are our truths

We believe in what we think to be true, and so all of our beliefs make up all of our ‘truths’. Whether or not such belief is actually true is another matter (see Bullshit).

Related To: Truth MOC
Created On: 2020-08-17 from C - Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Last Updated On: 2020-10-03

Truth is ungraspable

The really real and the truest truth is ungraspable by human beings. Our minds are limited, holding but a simulation of reality, capable of only producing low-res thoughts and concepts.

It makes sense that the most profound experiences (e.g psychedelic, spiritual etc) are totally ineffable.

See also/ References:

"There is no reason to expect the reality of immeasurable and unbounded life to satisfy your puny little thoughts." (Sawaki From Kōshō Uchiyama, Opening the Hand of Thought (OtHoT), chapter 6

If satori arises from any preconception of satori, that satori will not be reliable. True satori does not rely on concepts of satori, but comes from far beyond conceptualisation […] Know that satori is not an entity that exists. (Dogen From OtHoT, chapter 4

Life functions and the power of buddha is actualized, precisely at the point where we become completely From OtHoT, chapter 3

Related To: Truth MOC
Created On: 2020-10-13 from B - Opening the Hand of Thought
Last Updated On: 2020-10-13