It is in some ways like the ideal of the great romantic love: They are always looking for, but you will not, but at best rough approximations. Often you find yourself starting with what you have, and yet she hangs like a semi-transparent mirage for many generations before us, and we continually seek, for they and the search for it enriches our lives and gives it a hint of a meaning. Many people have gone crazy because of them, committed suicide or were killed. However, it is not a femme fatale, not even a person, it is - the truth. The urge to understand the world and find out how it works is that people immanent - the earliest age, we crawl around curiously and suck everything in us that makes us understand our environment. The deeper understanding of the world is the evolutionary advantage of us, who are neither particularly fast nor particularly strong, or shipped, has allowed to survive. On the other hand, philosophers early have recognized that we will understand the truth about the world as it is "in reality," never to end.
the one hand, we rely on detection of the things on our feelings. We see not really what "is" an object, but only a construct of our brain because of the sensory stimuli. Let's take for example a red apple, we must be aware that the apple does not really red "is" - we see only red because our brain from the retina to the incoming data on electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of about 640 nm - 780 nm interpreted as red. The joke is that a red apple is actually anything, not just red - the red wavelengths are indeed the apple just thrown back (and get in our eyes). As the same wavelength is interpreted by a rabbit or a Martian, and whether their concept of "red" corresponds with ours, we do not know - but both are expected in each case a quite different model to build the "truth" about the red apple.
intellectually Also, our knowledge Limits - we humans are simply not smart enough to know "the truth" about the world. Even if, in view of us brought forth by supercomputers or Mars rovers first sounds stupid - the way the world is certainly too complicated for us. Or you can prove to me that we all are not just figures in a giant computer simulation known to our laws of nature, as we know it works? What can we do - and what is the role of science - is to us as in the perception of the red apple to construct a model that fits reality. It does not address, is said, but fit, not contradicts it. A police dog will never understand why he was trained to sniff out drugs in luggage compartments, but it is clear to him - if he does it, there's a treat and some tender loving care by the master. It penetrates the complexity of the world, but he learns to deal with it, so is he good. And in this position, we are ultimately human. The laws of nature, we discover, are nothing more than the law of the dog that there is a drug discovery Chappi a pound.
truth is always subjective, navigating a guide to the world with which we through the maze of being. It does not matter whether someone with a better knowledge (other advanced civilization etc.) has overtaken our model - as long as it works, it is our "truth." A good example is the placebo . If the model in our mind gives us an improvement - it will just be so, then this is our personal truth about the "reality" - even though we have "objectively" just a piece of white sugar eaten in tablet form. In a famous experiment "thought" birds that if they make a certain movement, the machine in her cage donated them food - in fact the machines were their dances matter, but they were tired at the end anyway. Its truth was so different from those of researchers who the weird contortions of the birds laughed, but both views were equal. And therefore, the theory of relativity "objective" might describe a very different way the world than we think - as long as it works, it is our useful placebo, our "truth" that we now do not even know better. But still looking
be constantly on.
