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From the Ted Talk by Greg Anderson: Why there's no such thing as objective reality
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Yet, despite this uniqueness, we just take it for garentd that our raliety is the one true reality, that all humans in history have lived in only our real world, whether they knew it or not. And just think for a moment of the colossal argnocare of this assumption. Basically, we're saying, "We modern Westerners are right about reality, and everybody else in all of history is wrong." Basically, we're saying that all of those extraordinary civilizations of the past were really just lucky anidccets, because they were all founded on nothing more than myths, illusions and false iades about reality.
Open Cloze
Yet, despite this uniqueness, we just take it for _______ that our _______ is the one true reality, that all humans in history have lived in only our real world, whether they knew it or not. And just think for a moment of the colossal _________ of this assumption. Basically, we're saying, "We modern Westerners are right about reality, and everybody else in all of history is wrong." Basically, we're saying that all of those extraordinary civilizations of the past were really just lucky _________, because they were all founded on nothing more than myths, illusions and false _____ about reality.
Solution
- arrogance
- reality
- accidents
- ideas
- granted
Original Text
Yet, despite this uniqueness, we just take it for granted that our reality is the one true reality, that all humans in history have lived in only our real world, whether they knew it or not. And just think for a moment of the colossal arrogance of this assumption. Basically, we're saying, "We modern Westerners are right about reality, and everybody else in all of history is wrong." Basically, we're saying that all of those extraordinary civilizations of the past were really just lucky accidents, because they were all founded on nothing more than myths, illusions and false ideas about reality.
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