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Relativism

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Relativism
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On Qualia

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If we're dominated and therefore de facto separated by our qualia - i.e. the the subjective quality of conscious experience - can we ever reasonably hope to reach a consensus on what should be our shared values?

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning - W. Heisenberg

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We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are - The Talmud http://bit.ly/4BX9gT

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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life - Karl Popper

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There is never just one way -Michael Zakaras, Ashoka

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There are no facts, only interpretations - Friedrich Nietzsche- Notebooks (Summer 1886 - Fall 1887) http://www.entropy.in/the-moral-naturalists/

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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven- John Milton in Paradise Lost

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Good and bad, I define these terms, Quite clear, no doubt, somehow, Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now - from My Back Pages, Bob Dylan http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-back-pages

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning - W. Heisenberg

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