1. What is 'objectivity'. Is it just about more than one person at a time sensing or experiencing something? How many people should sense/experience the same thing to make it objective? If five people together see a ghost for example...is it objective evidence...or is it still nonsense? Or would we want some instrument to sense the ghost before we will accept it as real? If many people separately have similar experiences such as in NDE's...is that not objective evidence? Why is that dismissed as subjective?
We rely more on instruments to detect objective phenomena rather than rely on human senses.....because we feel human senses and imagination are unreliable. Ultimately everything is sensed only through the human mind. So...anything and everything can be just a subjective experience.
2. Real objectivity would be to see the world as just the String (given today's theories). It is the String that vibrates in 11 dimensions to transform itself into elementary particles which then become bigger particles..which then become atoms...which then bond to become molecules...which then form compounds ...and we then have the whole universe!
A true objective view would be to see the universe as just a transformation of the String. Every other view is just an illusion. What the String is and why it transforms into so many particles...is of course the fundamental question. And why and how are we...while being just products of the String ... none the less able to see the String itself 'objectively'?
3. There is a view among scientific circles considering Biocentrism, Parcipatory Anthropic Principle, Copenhagen Interpretation of QM, Quantum entanglement and non local influence etc..., that Consciousness is the foundation of the universe and that all objectivity is just an illusion. Like in a Virtual Reality world...everything is just a subjective experience and objectively there is no real universe out there at all!
Just some thoughts.
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