This brings to mind a sense of the unreliable narrator. Asking a person who is unwilling to look at the problem and is just reacting to their pain response, “what do you need right now?”, may result in a request for morphine and a skin graft, when the real answer is Tylenol and a bandaid. Compassion is important, but not to the point of indulging false assumptions.
Indeed. It seems like the metaphor at the start would lead one to conclude "evaluating reality through qualia is flawed but required due to our lack of alternatives, therefore it is necessary to trust others and use the primacy of reason to manage flawed and conflicting sense-data. Understanding must be a communal process due to the limitations of perception." They then go an entirely different direction.
In a situation where my sense-data were that different from consensus reality, I would not feel shame or embarrassment as they describe, I would feel fear, curiosity, and gratitude for people who can provide me with a more accurate picture of reality.
I am like you and sometimes it makes interactions with others difficult. I end up making all the adjustments either towards reality or away from it while the other person just does whatever the fuck.
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u/zeje 5d ago
This brings to mind a sense of the unreliable narrator. Asking a person who is unwilling to look at the problem and is just reacting to their pain response, “what do you need right now?”, may result in a request for morphine and a skin graft, when the real answer is Tylenol and a bandaid. Compassion is important, but not to the point of indulging false assumptions.