Objectivity vs. subjectivity: can objectivity create order or a different future?

My last blog entry recognized the existence of OBJECTIVE reality around us. In today's post I would like to discuss the subject of objectivity and its opposite - the subjectivity. While searching the Internet for material related to my today's subject I have found an interesting article that I would like to bring to the attention of my readers.

I took the quote from this page: http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs20041031.htm

This particular page is taken from a website owned by Laura Knight-Jadczyk and her husband Arkadiusz Jadczyk, quantum physicist.

It goes like this:

"As the brain interacts with its environment, synaptic circuits combine to form synaptic maps of the world perceived by the senses. These maps describe small segments of that world - shape, color, movement - and these maps are scattered throughout the brain. As the brain's synaptic network evolves, beginning at birth - or even before - these maps process information simultaneously and in parallel.

Based on our synaptic maps of the world, we are enabled to have a more or less objective view of reality."

So, we have an objective reality around us, but we are usually capable of viewing only portion of this objective reality. The quote above suggests that it is through the brain and the senses that we perceive reality around us, that is the observer is using this hardware to see reality. These are the synaptic maps that allow one to perceive more of the objective reality or at times less of it.

I imagine that through this hardware along with the necessary synaptic maps, which may actually be considered the software, the observer interacts with surrounding reality. It is also clear that due to physical limitations of the hardware and insufficiently sophisticated software (synaptic maps) the observer is unable to perceive the whole of objective reality.

However, the issue of partiality of perception of objective reality is not the only problem. It is, in fact, given and we have to live with it, whether we like it or not. What seems to me to be more important is to what degree what we perceive through our perception aparatus reflects that which exists objectively. In other words, is what we see really that what objectively exists. As I wrote before, we may not see something due to imperfection of our hardware and/or missing software, we may see it distorted this way or the other, or we may even choose to see what we want to see, or not to see at all.

Consequently, the question of objectivity is not really related to the partiality of view, BUT rather the capacity of observer to see what is, as it is. If the observer is not capable of seeing the reality as it is, the observer's reality becomes subjective. Whereas the observer is capable of seeing what is and recognizes it for what it is based on its synaptic maps, then the observer defines own reality in a more objective way. This way, although the reality of observer is still partial, as it is, but nonetheless it objective.

I conclude my pondering for tonight. I will continue on the subject of objectivity vs. subjectivity in my next post, so stay tuned...

Oli