Episode 9.29: Truth as a combination of different aspects that may include contradictions.

Changing our Q from quantum theory, we argue for a view of truth in which it is a combination of different aspects different views of the world which may include those that are incompatible or even contradictory. When we make up our minds as societies so often demands that we do, we are forced to select one from a multitude of possibilities, when it might well be in our better interests to remain in a mixed state Where we hold many different and even contradictory views at once. Society doesn’t like this, because it means that we are much harder to place, and therefore our allegiances and our tribal loyalties are much harder to ascertain; but society is always richer when it is more diverse, and the view of truth advocated here leads naturally to such diversity.