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Thank you for introducing me to the term "umwelt". Over the past few years I've come to believe there's no such thing as objective reality at all—that it just feels that way when enough subjective viewers agree about what is true—and it's amazing to have a word for this for the first time.


Note that "Umwelt" is just the german word for "Environment" (or "Surrounding") - which actually fits in this context.


I was including the whole academic background around this usage that I can use as a conversation springboard, but thanks for teaching me a second thing today :)


willkommen auf Deutsch




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