I have been thinking about this for awhile and asking other people about it but no one wants to entertain my thoughts so I thought I would post it here.
This I think is quite similar to the ‘if a tree falls’ philosophical problem.
But here goes:
When an event happens everyone recounts the story to relatives and friends in a slightly altered way. They may slightly exaggerate or under exaggerate certain parts of the story to fit a narrative or fit a perception they want other people to have of them.
For example:
Two people in a car park have a minor fender bender. They both are pretty calm and exchange insurance details. But when each person goes back home and tells relatives or friends in the future they will slowly adapt and change the story over time whether intentionally or not…
I hope at this point you understand where I’m going with this.
If everyone’s account of the story is slightly changed did the original version of the story ever really happen?
And a follow-on question that is slightly easier to pick one side of is, if you lie about a dream you had last night it is technically no more true or false then what your dream actually was seen as all of it happened in your head?
UnderstandingSea1557 t1_ivycua4 wrote
Reply to /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | November 07, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
If everyone lies about an event….
I have been thinking about this for awhile and asking other people about it but no one wants to entertain my thoughts so I thought I would post it here. This I think is quite similar to the ‘if a tree falls’ philosophical problem. But here goes: When an event happens everyone recounts the story to relatives and friends in a slightly altered way. They may slightly exaggerate or under exaggerate certain parts of the story to fit a narrative or fit a perception they want other people to have of them.
For example: Two people in a car park have a minor fender bender. They both are pretty calm and exchange insurance details. But when each person goes back home and tells relatives or friends in the future they will slowly adapt and change the story over time whether intentionally or not…
I hope at this point you understand where I’m going with this.
If everyone’s account of the story is slightly changed did the original version of the story ever really happen?
And a follow-on question that is slightly easier to pick one side of is, if you lie about a dream you had last night it is technically no more true or false then what your dream actually was seen as all of it happened in your head?