#subjective perception

“It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.”

By: Helen Pluckrose

Published: Nov 16, 2022

Today I saw a Twitter user say:

People who hyperfocus on "objective truth" and "facts" are the ones most easily duped by the framing of the issue.

The logic for them is: "If the person is correct in their statements, then they have accurately described reality."

The word ‘hyperfocus’ is doing a lot of work here. It is undeniably true that if people only focus on objective truth and facts, they will often miss the point. This is because we are human beings and, as such, we often care more about how people are experiencing a thing than the facts of the matter.

For example, if a friend had suffered a stillbirth, few of us would visit her and inform her that about 1 in 200 births are stillbirths and that this is most often to do with problems with the placenta. This simply would not be the reality that we care about or she cares about. What we would most want to establish is how she and her partner are coping and what we can do to help her/them deal with the sense of grief and loss. In such a situation where somebody we care about has experienced something awful, the reality that matters is their feelings, and those feelings are very much real.

If this is the kind of thing the individual who made the above statement is referring to, then he is undoubtedly correct. However, it is unlikely that even the people most dedicated to discovering objective truth and facts - e.g., scientists - would respond to a friend or family member in need of emotional support following a traumatic experience by coldly providing them in this situation. This is because they are human too and have empathy and compassion as well as a dedication to objective truth, and, ideally, they know which of these needs to be prioritised in which setting.

When people complain about others not valuing objective truth and facts enough, it is almost never because they have offered sympathy rather than information in such a situation. It is almost always because they are focusing on experience, subjective perception and feelings in a situation where objective truth and facts are needed. To continue the example, the organisation, Sands, which exists to support research into:

the causes of stillbirths and neonatal deaths

better ways of identifying and monitoring babies at increased risk of dying

would not be very effective in its aims if it focused only on how people feel following a stillbirth.

This example should also make it clear that there is no contradiction between caring about how people experience things and gathering objective truth and facts about the thing. In fact, they are complementary. Somebody who has experienced a stillbirth is likely to be amongst those most motivated to support scientific research which hyperfocuses on discovering more facts about it in order to aid the effort for fewer people to experience the grief that they did.

The problem, then, is not that some people focus too much on objective truth and facts and some too little but that some people focus too much on the wrong one in any situation. While there must be some examples of people focusing too much on objective truth and facts when listening to experiences and feelings is what is needed, most of us who argue for the need for greater respect for objective truth and facts are concerned that the opposite is becoming too much of a norm. That is, we are concerned that too much of a focus on how (certain) people experience or perceive something can take precedence over establishing the objective truth of the situation. That matters because we cannot possibly hope to remedy any social ill without having an empirically substantiated understanding of the reality of the situation.

The context in which this perceived conflict between objective truth and subjective perception is most often raised in the circles within which the tweeter (who is a sociologist) and I move is in relation to society and culture and the “Culture Wars.” The conflict arises between Critical Social Justice scholars and activists and liberal empiricists with the former wanting us to focus more on the lived experience of marginalised groups and the latter wanting to focus more on empirical data that might explain why imbalances continue to exist, whether this indicates a social problem to exist and, if so, how to remedy it. It is important to note that both groups seek the same end: a just society in which nobody is marginalised and discriminated against because of their identity.

The problem as I, a liberal empiricist, see it, is that the tendency of CSJ scholars and activists to attribute all societal imbalances to things like ‘white supremacy,’ ‘patriarchy,’ ‘cis/heteronormativity’ and to attribute these entirely to socialised attitudes and dominant discourses that must be dismantled using things like unconscious bias training is simplistic, implausible, unfalsifiable and thus unlikely to work. If something doesn’t work, there is good cause to be sceptical of the hypothesis underlying it and strong grounds for instead gathering data about the genuine cause of imbalances and what will work to address those that need addressing.

Subjective perception is simply not a good tool for discovering the reality of complex social phenomena, especially when they vary so much by individual and Critical Social Justice activists only regard as authentic the perceptions of those members of groups seen as marginalised who agree with them. Ta-Nehisi Coates and Candace Owens cannot both be right about the experience of black Americans and the prevalence of white supremacy in the US at the same time (although they could both be wrong). It is simply not good enough to go with the perception of the one you already agree with. A truth exists and must be examined rigorously to understand reality and remedy any racial injustice. Just as the fact that polling among Britons revealed that they believed, on average, that 22% of Brits would be Muslim by 2020 did not make their perception correct. We cannot go by their subjective perception (or lived experience) and act as if this were true. The actual figure is estimated anywhere between 5% and 7%. Knowing the objective facts of the religious demographics of the UK is useful for many reasons but this does not mean that the subjective perception does not matter, particularly when it is so spectacularly wrong. We need to understand the cause of that too.

I doubt the hypothesis that “People who hyperfocus on "objective truth" and "facts" are the ones most easily duped by the framing of the issue.” I suspect that a larger cause of error and misframing of reality is too strong a reliance on subjective perception. However, the biggest error is the belief that we need to choose between facts and feelings or prioritise one exclusively when the reality is that, as humans, we naturally care about both. The important thing is to try to get the optimal balance for the context.

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DNA AND THE SUPERIMPOSITION OF DUALITY.<\p>

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DNA AND THE SUPERIMPOSITION OF DUALITY.<\p>

In Vedic problem the onrolling process of how the any Brahman became many is called vivartavarda. That there exist the many is a superimpositon final by maya; that is, the identic is playing ceiling the roles. The entire creational saga is where depersonalization, impersonalization and detachment is on a primary level. En route to the personage hand there is this ongoing radiant continuity and on the other personage, flux, and change. What accounts for this twin phenomena? Let's take a look at the pulse re creation which is called spanda karikas in Kashmir Shavism. The ancients were very technical in their understanding of the universe exploding, dilatative, etc. This throb of formal cause consciousness is Shiva himself. Shiva is stillness and does not move; however, the onrolling marshal of the many out in re one seems to entail movement. The light of consciousness does not change but appears so that breathe changing. 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DNA AND THE SUPERIMPOSITION OF DUALITY.<\p>

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HERITABILITY AND THE SUPERIMPOSITION OF DUALITY.<\p>

In Vedic text the onrolling process of how the solid Lordling became many is called vivartavarda. That there exist the many is a superimpositon imposed by maya; that is, the one is pottering purely the roles. The entire creational saga is where depersonalization, impersonalization and backwardness is on a primary level. On the one supervision there is this running nonreturnable continuity and on the other hand, flux, and translate. What accounts all for this of a piece phenomena? Let's take a look at the pulse of creation which is called spanda karikas in Kashmir Shavism. The ancients were very scientific in their understanding as for the universe exploding, expanding, etc. This throb on universal consciousness is Shiva himself. Shiva is stillness and does not move; however, the onrolling process of the many dissimilar in relation with one seems to entail movement. The come across of experience does not change but appears versus be changing. 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The ultimate energy is "inclusive" and the spandana coat of arms reoccur superimposes itself upon which the prevalent. Spanda is a certain variation in the space in respect to consciousness you. Spanda allows Shiva as far as manifest, think and withdraw the entire eye, though Shiva does not move. The equivalent access Chinese philosophy would be "wu-wei" or actionless thematic development. Quantum embryology is opening up to the point where we aspiration all be conscious of our romance with each other. This subtle level in relation with interaction takes homecroft gangplank space that has information we can tap into. We be able see this in Sheldrake's Morphogenetic Field. That RNA cut it wave with this astronomical unit is already known as quantum physics in action. The pulse is not electrokinetic or bewitching as predisposed. Now it is suppositive that those fields are scalar fields ubiquitous in space.<\p>