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		LocalH 85 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Swit... There is no such thing as objectivity in human experience. Every single thing, even attempts to be objective, are all filtered through the subjective experience of life. Our brains interpret objective reality and provide us a subjective translation.

lo_zamoyski 83 days ago [–]

Then if your claim also a mere subjective emanation, and an arguably mysterious one?

The subject receives the object in the mode of the subject, yes, but this does not mean that knowledge of the objective is impossible.

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