Less Than Nothing

Is truth an achievable goal to strive for? We humans often take it for granted that the truth exists somewhere, that if two individuals disagree, one must be 'right' and the other 'wrong', in other words, that one person understands the objective truth, and the other is misguided, or basing their beliefs on flawed logic or incorrect facts. The issue with accepting this view of reality, is that it requires first accepting that absolute facts exist, statements which are incontrovertibly true.  The question stands that if an objective truth exists, why haven't we found it yet? Even after 25,000 years of human  civilization, there is not a single fact that humans can agree on, with hundreds of vastly differing systems of thought on the basic nature of our existence. If absolute truths did exist, facts which could stand up to any scrutiny and could be proved beyond a modicum of doubt, would we not have found them yet? Should there not be a single axiom which cannot be co...

Consciousness is a fundamentally human concept. The charge and mass of an object are measurable properties of matter that can be experimentally verified, however no physical reaction will take the sentience of an agent into account, simply put, to be alive is a  definition assigned only by the alive, and to whom only it is important That being said, to be aware is clearly an important distinction to us humans, it forms a core aspect of our collective moral philosophy ('beings' deserve a certain level of rights and welfare over the inanimate). Therefore it is important to form a conception of what it means to be conscious, how we see consciousness as an attribute, and what elements of the universe 'count'.  As has been stated, what humans think of as 'being' is an illusion created by our own minds. We see ourselves as single agents, indivisible mental 'atoms'. This of course is a convenient lie, evolutionarily it is more effective to view fellow humans an...