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There are two kinds of reality that exist as equal yet opposites, objective reality and subjective reality.
Physical and logical truths that can be theorized, riggerously tested, proven, disproven, and used to further a greater undertanding of a tangable, physical universe with logistical laws. Mathematics, and sciences are closely related because the universe can be broken down and understood on a imaginative level that makes sense, every area of abstract math connects with each area of applied science in deep fundamental ways that you can only really understand and appreciate through years of dedicated study and education. This is 'Truth' in tangible, universally provable form that every sentient species who has ever lived in and studies our universe will agree on and eventually discover to some degree.
Of corse this mindset relies on the assumption that the universe *does* make sense on some logistical level, which ultimately makes logic just another belief system philosophically. The universe may not be truly understandable from a human perspective hence a billion theories as to what gravity even is all being equally unlikely, but that assumption is the best bet we've made in thousands of years and has paid off with advancement in tech.
How you view and interpret the world through your own limited, incomplete, and sometimes warped human context that you've built from a lifetime of spontaneous experience and mental contemplation. You literally make up and decide what you allow and disallow to exist in your own personal bubble of how the universe should 'operate'. Any untestable, unverifiable belief you have about the universe works on a philosophical, spiritual, and psudo-scientific level. personal positions on complex ideas like the existance of God(s) or the soul, the belief that physical matter is made of 'emotions' or 'vibrational energy', the existence of 'chakra life energy', the existance of extra 'Dimensions' in which abstract things like thoughts, mathematical laws, and ghost/spoopy paranormal beings exist, the philosophical questioning of if anyone is actually 'real' except you, because you literally cant prove the existence of any observable consciousness except your own, and for all you know you could be a brain in a jar being fed electrical signals to hallucinate reality.
All of these things are literally unprovable by any current scientific means. They arent questions based around physical testable concepts that can be broken down and dissected, but rather they are deep fundamental questions about the state of our own existence and meaning in a unknowable, spontaneous, complex universe with no clear cut answers besides what we choose to believe is correct. That doesnt mean these concepts dont exist, or that they aren't objectively *real* but rather they are unconfirmable through the lense of current scientific scrutiny or provable reality, leaving it up for raw faith and intellectual philosophical debating, nothing more.
Some people claim to see/sense ghost, some people claim that they can hear voices in their head, others claim to see certain colors with numbers. Is it the subjective mind imagining these things, or do some people have access to a special unknown part of objective reality that science cannot touch with its current tools of logic, whether through a genetic disorder or some kind of offshoot evolution to consciousness itself? and further, is it more beneficial for a population to believe that those few with *subjective gifts* (lack of a better term) are crazy and making up hallucinations in their own mind, rather than experiencing some new part of objective reality only accessible to the few abnormal? My money is that 99% most hallucinations people experience are internally made up because of mental illness like schizophrenia with well documented studies, and then like 1% of people are actually experiencing real objective yet unscientific stuff through a slightly evolved consciousness out of sheer genetic chance.
Okay, solipsism is nothing new but i thought my take was slightly different from the core concept.