• quarkquasar@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Perception is pretty much always different, but that doesn’t mean the underlying thing being experienced is itself different.

    If you cut a pickle in half, and give each half to a different person, and one liked it and one didn’t, you wouldn’t say the pickle tasted different, just that both people perceived the taste differently.

    • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Yes but for all we know one person perceives the pickles in a way i would consider tart or sour while the other may perceive them as sweet. but relative to everyone’s individual perception this fits along the broader categories that people may experience. the relatuvity may be the same while the absolute nature is not