It is well understood that we are prone to have certain "biases" in our

It is well understood that we are prone to have certain "biases" in our

It is well understood that we are prone to have certain "biases" in our perception of the world, which are caused by some form of highly relative sociocultural conditioning or another. With that in mind, how could we be sure that we can trust our perception of objective reality? Wouldn't that "complete perspective" always out of reach, because with all our sophisticated science and knowledge we are still just human subjects experiencing the world as members of a particular set of social conditions? Also, what about the bias of human perception itself, compared to animal forms of perception which might rely on completely different systems of space and time? Like, the fly that only lives for a day or two, or giant squids who live at extreme temperatures and pressures for 100 years or more. The point is that it seems like a truly comprehensive system for understanding and categorizing objective reality into workable concepts would have to account for the fact that we are limited to our experience as humans in a relative culture and time period, thus the system is not complete and probably never will be. Right?

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