Shared reality is woven from irreducibly perspectival individual experience

Evidence

Any piece of information that a biographer can discover about a person, she adds, is a trifle compared to the rich confusion of that person’s real life, with its web of relationships and its countless elements of experience. Moreover, each of these elements means something different depending on perspective: a simple statement such as ‘I was born in Paris’ has a different meaning for each Parisian, depending on his or her background and precise situation. Out of this elaborate perspectival network, a shared reality is woven. No one will ever make sense of this mystery, she says. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 988

Categorization

• XREF: The perspectival network of reality builds on the earlier Dasein and being-in-the-world discussions in this book; also echoes the gestalt and figure-ground themes from Deep Listening. — connects to: The Other cannot coherently organize my experience given the structure of experience itself; Socially shared illusion functions as a second reality for participants — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 254; Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 (+6 more)
• QUESTION: Who is ‘she’ here — likely Beauvoir — and which work does this come from? Worth pinning down the source text.

Broader Connections

• Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality #expands (0.82) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121
• Socially shared illusion functions as a second reality for participants #expands (0.78) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 254
• Shared journeys among strangers create the sense of an imagined community #expands (0.74) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 223
• Shared bodily experience anchors the cross-cultural sharing of other minds. #corroborates (0.72)