[CLIP]
>I'm not sure why you should be so surprized. The idea is an ancient one
>well known to all philosophy students, has been fashionable at various
>points in history--but those who like the idea and support it, and those
>who repudiate the concept, are well-known to each other and are unlikely
>to ever convince each other.
And I think that loads of ideas which come under the tag, "consensus
reality", were voiced during the discussion... we just didn't have a crafty
label.
>It's one of the many possible metaphysical
>models, like solipsism, that can't really be disproved, so it isn't
>really anything interesting.
Don't see why that's a sequitur... Consensus reality meshes lovelily with a
memetic view of human beliefs, so I reckon it's a more interesting view of
reality than thinking about an objective reality that we'll never know...
Dave Pape
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