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There are a lot of perspectives. Just remember not to fall for the fallacy from authority, or fallacy of majority. Just because MOST believe one reality doesn’t make it truth.
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Very similar to scientific consensus. “It is a fallacy to claim something is true because of scientific consensus. The claim is not that scientific consensus is true
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but that it is probable because of the supporting evidence amassed by those knowledgeable in the field and assessed by their piers. Very different.”
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I would add evidence that people can test. not necessarily just "those knowledgeable in the field"
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What we experience is not called reality because most people believe it. Its called reality because repeatable experiments collect data that describes (ie predicts) the world.
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Humans inability to photosynthesize is reality, not because we voted & chose that as our reality but because there is evidence that can be repeated that supports this view of reality
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(ie lacking proteins that plants use to photosynthesize, people starving to death in the sunlight, etc.)