What does it mean when we humans claim something is “true” or “real”?
Perhaps I missed it in the wall of text, but I don’t think you got around to answering this? In fact, your second-to-last paragraph (“As a final thought...”) seems to be saying that this whole post was just preliminary to beginning on an answer.
Indeed, in a way that was my intention. In a coming essay I will try to lay out what I believe is a serviceable notion of truth and reality that we work with. The purpose of this first essay was to first lay out how much they are human creations.
Perhaps I missed it in the wall of text, but I don’t think you got around to answering this? In fact, your second-to-last paragraph (“As a final thought...”) seems to be saying that this whole post was just preliminary to beginning on an answer.
Indeed, in a way that was my intention. In a coming essay I will try to lay out what I believe is a serviceable notion of truth and reality that we work with. The purpose of this first essay was to first lay out how much they are human creations.