A separate reality.

[cladking]

What if each of us lives in a world that is unique with unique physical laws, history, and future? I'm not suggesting this is the actuality merely that it makes more sense than the absurd and inane theories flowing from every direction. Education merely leads people to a shared reality which is based on beliefs and the foundations which produced that reality. We experience surrealism when different realities come into conflict and must resolve.

 

This would explain how we survived our childhoods and how we are each right. It would explain how we don't even seem to notice all the confusion. Injustice is shrugged off as inconsequential.

 

The denial of the existence of others tends to lead to madness and the denial consciousness is a dead end. But it's obvious that few people are on the same page.

 

Mebbe we're all reading from different books?

 

God willing this won't be yet another new religion.

[EdEarl]

It is a good read, A Separate Reality, and its anthropologist author enjoyed some financial success along with controversy about whether or not the book is non-fiction.

 

Physics is the same for all of us, within the bounds of relativity. Otherwise, physics experiments would not be repeatable by anyone, and the scientific method would not work.