> Are you arguing against the existence of an objective reality?

I’d argue against absolute certainty in any knowledge. That isn’t a statement about reality, just our measure of it.

I can be absolutely certain of my perception and recollection of what my consciousness is experiencing and has experienced.

Note that the truth of this statement does not depend on any certainty about external reality, nor does it depend on certainty that what I perceive or remember is happening or actually happened.

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JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> nor does it depend certainty that what I perceive or remember is what is

It absolutely assumes a unitary conscious experience versus what increasingly seems to be the case, a bunch of narratives our brains thread into a cohesive story ex post facto.

Put another way, there very well may be hard limits to how much a human-like consciousness can understand itself.

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prmph 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> a bunch of narratives our brains thread into a cohesive story ex post facto

That is exactly the reality I am asserting, whether or not they actually describe an "external" reality

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess my argument is you can’t be absolutely certain about what your internal reality is. Perception, as a measure, even when pointed entirely internally, is fundamentally fuzzy.

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bdangubic 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is of course absolute certainty and there is a lot of it, absolute and unquestionable