Too many truths
What would be the nature of a person who took everything that everyone said as the truth? Would a person of a such a trusting nature be able to differentiate when two statements of conflicting nature were told to them? Would they then think that the person who told them of the first statement was a liar because of what the second person told them? What if it was impossible to do so? Then the person could only function if they had no ability to retain knowledge. And if they could retain knowledge then how could it be filed in their minds? How could contradicting notions be categorized if all such notions were perceived to be truth? Could a person handle such a task?
A computer couldn’t compute this. A computer has to have logical rules just like most people need logical rules. Whether or not they see themselves as logical or not, there are self imposed rules that have to be followed or the world ceases to lose it’s meaning. And if the world has no meaning then the person’s existence would have no meaning. If there is no meaning to an existence then there is little or no will to live. How does one live with the Internet and the television? How does one quantify their existence in the presence of newspaper and reference sections? How does one make sense of the world overshadowed by politics and religion? All of these sources have contradicting truths every hour of every day, oftentimes within their own words.
So how are we dealing with this? The same way people always have. They pick the truth that they are most comfortable with and they stick to it until (and sometimes even after) they are proven wrong. People make conscious choices as to what they will and will not believe about themselves, their friends and family and the world around them. But to get back to the point: what if you were incapable of doing this? What if you believed everything? I believe (by choice) that this is impossible without going mad. Although, is this part of what drives people mad? Could this nature being bombarded with the constant flow of informational truths be the reason that we are seeing more and more insanity every day?
There may be some truth to this, but you have to choose….
It’s kinda funny. A show in Japan just got done called LIAR GAME that had a lead character that did this exact thing. She believed everything that everyone ever told her to be the truth. In turn, she never told a lie. It posed a great question as to what would happen if she was put into a situation where everyone lies to her, and to win the game, she would have to lie.
But yeah you’re probably right, you would have to go mad. We would definitely choose what was more comfortable or more “right”.
Interesting topic.