Hmm, yes it seems like this is one of those questions people have asked for forever and never settled on. The varying degrees of abstractness and what makes something obvious still leads me back to subjective experience and degrees of trust. More tomorrow if you want to add, time for bed, GN.

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What do you mean by degrees of trust?

I have a high degree of trust that a video us real if I took it, slightly less is a family or friend took it and vouches for it, less if its on social media etc.

Gotcha, gotcha. I feel like the way you were using the word “subjective” earlier made it sound like you view it as something that is untrustworthy. Is that accurate?

I don't know if I would call the subjective untrustworthy, it could vary person to person but it doesn't have to, its just whatever you see something as, which could be influenced by drugs, experience, sleep deprivation etc.

Maybe you define real like this: that which is within you is synchronized with that which is outside of you.

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