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The theme of today's episode is truth.
Now, when you think of truth as its own entity, there's not really that much controversy.
I mean,
I don't think most people disagree
that it seems likely there's an absolute truth about each individual facet of everything that exists.
Some blanket single code about everything that is the truth.
That concept is pretty straightforward in itself.
It's when humans start talking about the truth that things get pretty crazy.
The real tough question is what is that truth and what makes it true when viewing it through the lens of a human?
It gets tough because we're all viewing the same exact scene unfolding out in front of us,
but we're all viewing it through a different filter and from a slightly different vantage point.
Now, because of that, and this is something that's actually a big issue in philosophy moving forward,
we might have to be willing to accept as humans that we can't arrive at the truth.
We might have to accept that as beings living on this planet, whatever you think we are,
that discovering the absolute truth about everything, or anything for that matter, isn't a function of our existence.
I mean, we might not even have the equipment to find the truth.
So to understand this, it's kind of related to your own personal world view.