How to see past your own perspective and find truth | Michael Patrick Lynch
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2024
- The more we read and watch online, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake. It's as if we know more but understand less, says philosopher Michael Patrick Lynch. In this talk, he dares us to take active steps to burst our filter bubbles and participate in the common reality that actually underpins everything.
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I think this sums up everything: "Daring to understand means risking the possibility that you could be wrong, it means risking a possibility that what you want and what's true are different things."
It does not matter if you are left or right. You always need to find the truth.
Infinite Singularity Of Wisdom truth is a government creation
aaronoyiki have evidence for that?
+aaronoyiki troll detected.
actually being 'left or right' basically means u r not looking for the truth in the proper way, thus u r already fundamentally on the wrong path ; a better statement would be that the truth does not care about 'sides' and thus to find/see/understand the truth u as well need to stop seeing things in terms of 'us vs them'
truth is neither left or right. that's when you become an adult and stop playing childrens games
Bravo! A much needed talk in these times. Another common misconception that people have is that they view the mistakes of other people as intentional instead of realizing how much other people lack in knowledge. I believe people do this because it makes problems seem easier to fix when intentions of others are at fault instead of their understanding.
Perhaps making peer-reviewed research more accessible would help?
This man spoke more truth in 15 min..💯 How can anyone not learn from this short wake up call. #savagetruth
"Do I care about truth or just my own comforting opinion?" is the single question he's basically asking everyone to ask themselves. If you don't care about reason and confronting your beliefs through healthy skepticism, and are not willing to change those beliefs based on new objectively true information, then you may very well be harming more people than just yourself.
There I ask myself, what defines truth?
Is it me?
Is it you?
Its relativ, i guess.
A point where i ask myself, isnt any opinion in some kind a truth.
It depens on rather it matches to our individual believes of life.
Thank you, this comment will help on the conclusion to my essay
@@rafaelmontoya1454 Same bro
A great talk in days from TED. This why I subscribed.
Great talk, thanks to all involved!
I'd say on the notion of humility - that our culture has a problem of associating status with being correct. Hence, people often choose to believe or present themselves as always being right, in order to preserve status. We need a culture in which acknowledging that our understanding can be improved by others is considered a more status-worthy trait.
I do believe this may help, too: www.scientology.org/courses/investigations/overview.html
It's funny to see some of the comments here are a product of the problems mentioned in this talk
What an amazing talk! So happy to see someone talking about truth. I love truth, it feels so good, and even eventually when it seems bad at first. To me, this is the most productive 14 minutes of my day.
I hope this finds you well: www.scientology.org/courses/investigations/overview.html
I think that everyone should try to understand what this man is saying. Those who understand it will gain so much from it. The logic is practically flawless. And if you don't agree with him, I urge you to watch it again and try to understand him. If you don't understand what he is saying, please watch it again and try to understand him. I cannot explain how much I want to emphasize what this man has said. This is the best TED talk I've ever seen.
The best Ted talk of this year. People should listen more to each other. It is clear that technology eases the access to information. However. this has made people more mentally lazy to learn and understanding each other. Instead of bickering who is right. Again, Great Ted talk. Thank you.
Had to watch this because of school. First time I actually enjoyed listening to an assigned video
It's hard to make points like this without seeming like a know it all, but this man is BRILLIANT
Great talk. Grateful that we have such a professor at Uconn.
He just prescribed the antidote to the steady stream of "divide and conquer" medicine we have been fed for the past however many years.
If I'm curious about something and want to find info about I may Google it but I also expand my search...I rarely see one source as absolute truth. But I also enjoy learning so I have a willingness to search farther.
Therefore, I will leave you this: www.scientology.org/courses/investigations/overview.html
Thank you Michael This was very relevant for me to hear this at this time.
what a great, great speech. very true in my opinion. what he says is the only truth and i will not accept any contradictions!
One way I like to use to double check my reality is to try to detect if I had been experiencing more and more cognitive dissonance in a particular subject. I called it my bubble detector.
This is incredibly helpful too: www.scientology.org/courses/investigations/overview.html
it's hard to listen. but subtitle helps me to understand, thank you very much.
This is a great talk, and definitely an eye-opener.
Active and VARIED ways of knowing, and perhaps self awareness, epistemic humility is good, but another way is seeing it as inward skepticism vs outward skepticism. If you only have one way of knowing and understanding, and no self-awareness, polarisation will likely continue. But yes this would be an active process of developing knowledge, understanding and informed perspectives.
One of the best ted talks i've seen
So to see the truth you just have to try hard to see the truth, and accept that maybe what you thought was true isn't true? Doesn't seem really different from believing is impossible to know the truth... Not trying to trash the guy...
I don't think he ends up making an argument very well to back up his idea of common reality, he just says that the idea of unreachable truth is old and impossible to prove itself and that people use this idea to argument whatever they think and feel good about themselves but that doesn't make the philosophical theory false.
What I think is that the question itself is outdated, we cannot be sure if we know or not know the truth but either way we will have the irrational feeling that will make us believe we do know in some moments. And that idea can bring horrible consequences or not. The problem with his theory is that it seems to come from a moral philosophy not a metaphysical one. In my opinion horrible consequences are unavoidable that doesn't mean I won't try and not having them happening but this universal moral idea that says it should work the same way everywhere all te time is an inhuman one. Any idea end ups being false in some cases so holding to one forever is impossible. And he said something like that in the third rule with humility which for me seems like a religious promise in which if you are a good kid you'll be shown the truth, but for me I gotta say is not certain, and that's okey.
Pragmatism has a problem and it is that they accept that they will never get to the "truth" truth and never really gets to prove that there is a solid truth but at the same time assure you'll get close to it... How can you get close to something you don't even know exists? You'll always have the same question in your mind - Where am I going really? - Just like people that don't believe that there's truth. They are left wondering by themselves.
"Reality is perception, and you're all blind."
- Xenaze, The Star Gazer.
Very useful speech 👍
Every now and then during this talk, he sounds ever so slightly like Tony Stark.
100% the root problem to solving our ability to persist through time, common perception of ourselves and world
Great speech about the dangers of postmodernism!
Being shorn of a closeted world view and having the humility of being open to and interpret a differing perspective objectively...that's the only way to rid ourselves of the constructed biases in the information freeflow that we have today.
This, I have found, also helps: www.scientology.org/courses/investigations/overview.html
you're amazing, thank you
This man said "Real truth about Truth"
Truth is to be created not to be ingested.
Beleiving in truth
Always understand and recheck the facts u r updating
Little humility::i didn't understand if someone can explain it would be great
First amazing speech
Heroic.
Rule 1: Question everything
Rule 2: Repeat rule 1
to find the truth
uh nah I tried that
I got severe paranoia...
what now?
Repeat step 1.
You are wrong, Rule 1: You do not talk about the Fight Club
why...?
Oh my! that's THE Michael P. Lynch that defends alethic realism and ontological pluralism at once. Great to see him on TED.
So pragmatic and useful for the netizens nowadays.
that was a good speech. i agree with alot of what he said. i think a majority of the issue with "truth" at a society level is it often conflicts with belief structures both directly and deeply. religious people vast out number the non and objective evidence based facts tend to fly in the face of religious ideologies so people resist them out of indoctrinated mental self interest
Possibly I'll have to watch this again not so late or perhaps take notes, but I found watching this kind of erratic. A lot of very good points I was able to enjoy, but then a lot of times it seems certain concepts were thrown out as assumptions or with correlation to matters not necessarily agreed upon by others. comes across to me as if the idea of a common reality he keeps repeating may not be so, or in the least he should define what it is he feels that means.
no Ted talks for last 2 weeks?
Do you care?
Vaibhav Gupta guess there wasn't any talks irl
Or more likely they had summer vacation.
what does it mean prespective on one reality? (my listening skill is as bad as my writing, but i can learn little by little). What kind of internet does he talk about? Does he mean media? Does he forget inside the internet people also can debate and post some proveable evidence? so why the internet is paradox?
someone enlight me, or please put the subtitle on this video because i just cannot take the information just from listening.
*Quantum Mechanics comes through the door*
Quantum mechanics: there is an infinite amount of realities
J3RRY maybe but we live in only one of them
J3RRY The non-pragmatic approach to solving humanity's pragmatic issues.
Regnum Abyssi how do we know that the internet can't spread to neighboring realities and it so happens that there is such a minuscule difference between mine and yours that we can't tell
I have come to bargain.
Still did it... yah they r different types of things like I’m insanely out there, selfish and open minded to a break
Couldn't you still download a thought process?
Good question. 4 reasons why truth is absolute and certain. 1 It is true that persons wrote comments on this video, isn't it? 2ndly 4 + 5=9 then all other answers are wrong. 3. We can see our loved ones literally, therefore we truthfully exist. 3rd If there is no absolute truth, it means that nothing in life really exists or is what we believe them to be. Examples: Do some of us have jobs, homes, children, parents? Are some of us females, males or human beings? It is absolutely true that is the case. Don't you agree?
what you are seeing is indeed the truth
I wonder what is the definition of the truth here?
How could we distinguish something as a truth from a mirage?
This might help on the how: www.scientology.org/courses/investigations/overview.html
As for the what(definition) Truth is the exact, time, place, form and event. Now what does that mean? Well, I gave you a place to start. Have fun.
wOw So PoWeRfUl
I don't understand his solution. How can we have a common reality if we can not agree on truth and if you have anyone in authority (Google, Facebook, Government) tell you what is truth, it rightly causes distrust. This problem is like poverty, there will always be people that choose it.
This guy is just preaching to the choir. The people who treasure the truth play by the rules. The ones who win don't care about the truth. They only care about winning and using underhanded tactics.
Why do those implants have to be connected to the internet as it's main source of knowleage? Why not simply just implement data and facts that we are sure about their source and that are nearly unquestionable. I mean there are things that we have to put into our memory usually by very hard work. Why shouldn't we use that tool to put them there?
I'm🧚🏻♂️going to go to my local police station & ask them what kind of world we live in as I can post all these things & no one cares.
Learning about different forms of cognitive bias and educating one's self in how to use logic to approach problems is the best way to find truth. Cognitive bias such as Appeal to Emotion, Appeal to Authority, Confirmation Bias, Attribution Bias and many more are all on the rise in western society. Not many people have been taught how to think or problem solve, which is why "truth" tends to be thought of as a subjective phenomenon rather than what it is - *objective reality.* This is the main reason why the _Generation X SJW_ culture has blown up way out of proportion.
_EDIT: Edited for spelling/grammar._
From what I have seen "anti SJWs"; meaning those who throw word SJW as an insult around lot; are worse in critical thinking than so called "SJWs" if those exist at all(after all it is just an pointless insult).
There are bad thinkers on both sides where people haven't learned how to think critically, but the SJW phenomenon (I'll call it that because people know what I'm talking about) has attracted a mindset of subjectivism that attempts to overwrite the objective world. They tend to be the less critical thinkers overall.
Of course, you're also correct in recognising that there are a lot of people on the Right and Alt-Right who cannot think properly and use appeal to emotion as a means of trying to win arguments. I believe this is the case because logic, reason and rationality doesn't tend to win any support from the SJW community. The frustration that builds up in the minds of the Alt-Rightists (at the fact they can't win arguments using logic, reason and evidence) causes them to fall into the same traps of shouting and trolling, which accomplishes absolutely nothing but support from non-free thinkers, or group thinkers.
I often see SJW in comments. Would you please tell me what that stands for?
Stormy Daze, it means Social Justice Warrior. A pejorative term for generally liberal people who support feminism and social equality, mainly centered around university and college campuses and who are seen as 'special snowflakes' by their opponents.
+Stormy Daze
SJW = Social Justice Warrior. It's very difficult to define because so many people with differing points of view and opinions tend to taint the term with their own bias.
I use the term, not for those who are actually for social justice, but to describe the phenomenon of those few people who claim to be for social justice but are actually anti-justice (and anti-rational). The kinds of people who live in a subjective bubble reality where they _think_ they know the way the world should be, and attempt to overwrite the objective world with their subjective perspective by using verbal abuse, labelling, violence much more. The term "Social Justice Warrior" has, unfortunately, become the label that has stuck due to intense backlash against those that claim to be for social justice but who aren't for any sort of justice at all.
Him : Thank you.
Me: No thank YOU!
I usually like TED talks, but this talk is pretty meh. I mean I get the point hes making, and agree, but in no way does he really provided a way for us to overcome it. He just kind of says we have to and why it is bad to not try to see the other point of view.
that's why you have to make your own search engine
But from my point of view the Jedi are evil.
Well then you are lost!
I lie, and that's the truth
What if the scary truth is no one knows the truth?
we are not machines
why is there 34 dislikes
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Confirmation basis
keep on kraken
Remember when you were young?
Anyone else think this guy sounds like John De Lancie?
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Check out Jordan Peterson on postmodernism for more depth on this topic.
someone will never reach the truth...
He is making assumptions. The reason his perception is only a refraction is because:
1) Man is not rational, man rationalizes, and
2) We each live in a separate Skinner Black Box.
3) We are each Schrödinger's cat.
4) All perception is subjective under the above conditions.
10:05
to the future enlightened people : ignore the comments. they will not set you free. and if you are reading mine, make it the last comment you read.
thank you
Russians need subtitles, please!
Not bad...
prepare for the mass amounts of people calling this man with a reasonable argument a "libtard"
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Imo This video presents too many value statements and not enough actual concepts to help understand knowing or the issues that can come from "Google knowing"
Speak for yourself. Always.
J
Almost no-one dares anymore 😶
Dude. Spoiler alert on 1984. I've read it but not everyone has.
Know your rights. All day long.
Facts don't care about feelings
Sixth
i disagre
How can we say we live in a common reality when we can't even acknowledge certain things that are obvious are true? How can we live in a common reality if people believe that they can just switch their gender at a whim for example? How can we live in a common reality when people reject obviously true things like the age of the universe?
I kinda think the subject of gender identity is a lot more complicated then people just changing there gender "on a whim", but I see what you are trying to say. There are people who will have perspectives that will differ from our current understandings (or will simply seem to reject objective facts). But I think the whole point of the speech is to solve that issue by trying to understand and listen to other perspectives, while also questioning yourself.
TheDeadred123 gender identity is objective fact, you can't have more genders than sexist which is a biological reality.
And I get the fact that the speech is basically saying get out of your bubble and learn what is reality, but what I'm saying is that there are a lot of people who don't even believe that there is an objective reality and that everything is unknowable. Post modernism has become fairly entrenched into a lot of different disciplines and people's world views.
We need to convince people that there is an objective reality before we can even begin to talk about what shape that reality takes. I feel as though he skimmed over that.
So what is the true age of the universe?
blacksmith67 roughly 13.6 billion years if I remember correctly.
My point wasn't that it's known exactly how old it is, but it's not 6000 years like some think, we absolutely know that isn't true
Thank you for clarifying. I was afraid that you might have been in the 6000 year category, glad to see you are not.
Stop trying to inter my brain. Sheesh. You all are insane.
TL, DR: stop being arrogant.
Don't speak on my own behalf. Ask. thanks
ANYONE READING THIS COMMENT SHOW ME ANYTHING FROM THE LEFT AS AN EXAMPLE OF PART 3 FROM NOVEMBER 2016 TO TODAY PLEASE JUST ONE LINK OR COMMENT OR NEWS ARTICLE UNBIASED
Watch more CNN, MSDNC, Fox, Breitbart, NYT, WaPo?
Just kidding :3
In fact, yes, it is also important to know what other people's perspectives are, even if they might (or are) wrong.
+Synox89
Sources I mentioned are not "people's perspectives" but outright propaganda meant to push for certain interests (super rich, bureaucrats, deep state that prefers not to change ever, military-industrial complex, "liberal" agendas etc). At most, their publications can be indicative of how *those who have power* have become desperate or not. That's in my opinion their only value.
He singles out millennials all without using the word itself.
millennials are not the only group guilty of the things Michael stated in the video
I think he was singling out a 7 billion population on a hunk of rock. But maybe that's just my perspective :p
Eggs festival......ovo that.
Emotional black mailing.
too much "I think"
Not trying to be rude, but these Ted Talks are repeating the same theme over and over again, its the 4th talk come across saying the same thing "Technology advancement is bad, social media is bad, internet is bad, convenience is bad, more information is bad, you should just go back and live a primitive life and stick with old fashioned farming stuff, stop improving technologically since we should go backwards and live in 60's and 80's again." Wtf.
I'm not laughing at all really simple.
Black mailing. Me no like.......