brockm on Nostr: Our understanding of the world is limited to a foveal slice of reality. Nearly ...

Our understanding of the world is limited to a foveal slice of reality. Nearly *everything* any of us knows comes almost entirely from the testimony of others. Including the very words we write and speak. Our entire concept of reality if path dependent on the aggregation of socially-delivered information, and abstracted into frameworks of understanding. Nobody’s knowledge of the world is solitary in nature. In fact, even where knowledge is derived from evidence, the interpretation of that evidence is almost always delivered through testimony. You cannot escape this. The internet doesn’t make this better.