The Truth about anything

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The truth is: the uninterpreted situation

considder: By measuring an object’s position with something that causes it to move (eg a wave) you cannot know its correct position (because you caused it to move)

This is known as quantum uncertainty.

The same can be applied to the the concept of knowledge or “the truth” as it is otherwise called.

All that we see including “the universe” is a perception of whatever is or was there. Therefore what we think of as the truth, is an interpretation of it and is therefore not the truth as it is or indeed was.

To say you know the truth is a lie, since by trying to work out what the truth is, you changed one perception of it to another and still will not know the truth as it is or was, but instead will only know a perception of it.

“the truth” whatever it is, is whatever is there, but cannot be percieved or interpreted by us. However, It IS defined (for encyclopedic publications) as “the unpercieved situation” (not the universe, since that is an interpretation of whatever the truth is, and also not god, since that is also a perception of whatever is there)

In conclusion:
Religious theories claiming the existance of god cannot be said to be the truth.
Theories claiming the non existance of god cannot also be said to be the truth.
The physical truth is something that our perceptions of the universe are but the tip of the iceberg.

Perhaps science, religion and all the other persuits for enlightenment is a fruitless excercise. Perhaps we cannot be enlightened.

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Hi matmilne, will this be a problem for your theory:

Our senses are passive to the forms of the sensed, so being the agent of the measure should not be a problem as far as sensations reaching our mental-sensing. After that, we abstract a universal, which is non-physical and probably not subject to “movement” in your sense. The only thing that might move the way you suggest might be the will-excited imagination – and isn’t that measured by the abstract? But no, you might be right, as Solomon said: “The imagination of man is evil from his youth.” As to how we conjure up images in our head, we may err.

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quite possibly, unfortunately i didn’t mean movement. I meant interpretatioon on a whole.
Our brain is not a relay system, it’s an interpretation machine.
what we “see” or think is not what was there or is ineed there.