world of intersubjective realities

After reading the works of historian Yuval Noah Harari, a concept that utterly fascinated me was the scope of realities. Realities can be dichotomized into objective and imagined. Objective realities are constructed within our minds by external information perceived by our senses to produce the same external reality that we all operate in. Objective realities are constructed based on objective information flow entering our sense organs which is a universal mechanism hence they exist whether we believe it or not for e.g. spherical earth and laws of gravity exists irrespective of individual beliefs i.e. every person will always perceive an apple falling down as per the mathematical rules of gravity. Imagined realities exist only in the imagination of human minds and its existence depends on whether a person is able to effectively construct a certain reality within their mind independent of external sensory information. Imagined realities are possible within humans due to the advanced cognitive capabilities of the human brain which allows for complex simulation of alternate realities different from the external reality objectively perceived through our senses. Imagined realities are subjective and can be vary greatly from person to person depending on a wide array of factors unlike objective realities which are universally exist for every person. A powerful subset of imagined realities are intersubjective realities which are imagined realities which universally exists in the minds of a certain group of people similar to how objective realities universally exists in the minds of all people. Inter-subjective realities are forced into existence when a set of people are able to collectively construct them in their individual imaginations almost transforming it into an objective reality where the imagined reality appears to universally exist only for that particular set of people. A key illustration of intersubjective realities is money where if a money bill was to be analyzed, it does not intrinsically have any value as it is just a piece of paper but its value arises from the fact that billions of people all over the world collectively believe that the bill has transactional value. If in a hypothetical scenario where all the people suddenly chose to believe that the money bill does not have any value, it can no longer be used a means of transaction which is precisely what happens in the case of demonetization i.e. when the government decrees that a particular set of money bills will not be accepted anymore and the collective reality of those bills gets deconstructed from the minds of those people in an instant. Laws, corporations, nations and religion all work in the same way i.e. they are not objective realities but are actually imagined in the minds of people and they have objective value only when multiple people are able to construct these imagination within their minds. Stories are an important tool in the construction of inter-subjective realities. Stories are actually one of the earliest intellectual inventions of humans even prior to the invention of writing which allowed humans to efficiently record a large amount of information as a cohesive unit purely within their minds which then could be propagated across time through narration effectively laying the foundation for incremental innovation where new generations could just build on top of information discovered and propagated by previous generations instead of having to rediscover all the information again from scratch which would result in an endless loop of stagnation. Stories can be viewed as information viruses which proliferate and get incubated in the minds of multiple people through effective storytelling allowing us to construct different imagined intersubjective realities. Unlike objective realities, intersubjective realities can be altered or even be made to disappear if a different story can be conveyed and imagined by people. The art of creating and narrating stories is a highly underrated skill which involves creative organization of abstract information tailored to the mysterious intricacies of the human mind ultimately materializing as organized neuron firings in the brain which can invoke powerful feelings and tangible actions. Two different stories can organize the very same group of people into performing actions of very different intensity and magnitude. The ability to construct intersubjective realities through storytelling is what truly enabled human species dominance by enabling groups of humans to collectively believe in a common vision and thereby cooperate in large numbers to work as a larger superorganism ensure their continued collective survival bypassing all their individual biological inferiorities when compared to other species. Inter-subjective realities however have historically served as a double-edged sword where the positive consequences have led to open systems of economic growth and technological advancement through interdependence and cross-pollination of diverse ideas which have resulted in increased span and quality of life but the negative consequences on the other hand have led to mass destruction and closed systems as of result of religious fanaticism and fervent nationalism. The strength of intersubjective realities depends on the magnitude of proliferation of the underlying stories making storytelling arguably the most important skill in the history of mankind where powerful stories have had the ability to incite deep and lasting collective action from a large group of people. Storytelling still remains a very powerful tool in the present era to invoke change and action among humans and is a never-ending artform where you can infinitely experiment and always construct increasingly powerful stories with time to construct new imagined realities.