Metaphysical Subjectivism vs. Objectivism

You are essentially questioning the very basis of the "Schrodinger's Cat" paradox. Schrodinger asked if events occured along an independent, objective course that was governed by a higher law or if observation (subjectivity) played a role in the outcome. He then outlined a hypothetical situation in which both answers could be true. We'd like to rationally believe that it is either one or the other, but Schrodinger's example allows both sets to peacefully coexist in a controlled environment.

I've heard this phenomenon called "Divine Dichotomy". It maintains that objective reality and subjective truth can peacefully coexist. They are faces of the same coin. Each can be examined independent from the other, but they can both be accepted as being parts of the greater whole.

Subjective truth, no matter how limited, is still truth. If you perceive an apple as "red" - that is, everything you know and all possible observations and cross-referenced inquiries support the thesis that it's "red", then that is the truth. The apple is red, because that is how you honestly define it. Others are allowed to disagree. If they do, they're not wrong. You are simply experiencing different subjective truths. Neither is less valid than the other.

Above this, lies a higher reality. It's not exactly an "objective" reality, one that insists that the apple is green and no other answers are applicable. It's more of an all-encompassing reality, one in which the apple is red, green, blue and whatever other colors are perceived for it, anywhere. They are all correct, and though we perceive each possibility as a seperate state, they manage to exist as one. They become multiple facets of the same object, like the coin. If we had the scope to process all of these states in one simultaneous moment, we'd understand that the apple is many colors, not just one. But our subjective truths are bound by the limits of our physical perceptions. We simply cannot see more than one side of the coin at a time, in most cases.

Consider light. It exists all around us, yet we cannot fully understand it without darkness. We are intelligent enough to understand that darkness is only the absence of light, but this absence becomes a seperate entity. The darkness cannot exist without light, yet the light has no reference without darkness. The darkness becomes a focal point by which we comprehend the light around it. They are opposite in nature, yet they're part of the same greater whole.

And so it is with ultimate reality and subjective truth. We cannot understand one without knowing the other. What good would it be if there were only objectivity? All things would simply be one way and no other ways would even occur to us. We'd never learn anything new, we'd never grow, we'd never have the differing experiences that define who we each of us are.

Everything we perceive is energy. Even above kinetics, there is the energy of emotion, life force and of ideas. We lack the tools to measure these energies but they still exist. Yet it's been scientifically proven that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can merely be reshaped and redefined. This is the context for our universe: there is an objective amount of energy that exists but it can be experienced in infinite ways.

This energy is both objective and subjective. It is many things, but it's all the same. Divine Dichotomy. The Alpha and the Omega. This is why both philosophical viewpoints are valid.

Jam it back in, in the dark.