sapphi_snake said:
Bong Lover said:
As I pointed out, the bolded objectivist view is in obvious conflict with the book. I don't know that it makes much sense to go into a discussion of the merits of that world view in the context of the book. Obviously the point of the book is to offer an alternative to this stringent interpretations of reality. Not necessarily to reject that reality exsists outside of our perception, but rather to allow for stories and imagination in how we interact with reality.
The book doesn't make any assertions on what story is 'true'. It is not the point of the book. It's quite possible that Pi knows that the story of Richard Parker is fictious, and yet decides to tell it anyway. It is also quite possible that the story of Richard Parker is true, and the more believable tale is made up by the way. After all, it's just a book and none of the stories are really true.
If you choose to read the book as an invitation to disregard what happens and make up your own story and go with it I think you are missing the point of it. Also, as I am sure you are aware of, your assumption that reality is not subjective is just an assumption. It can never be proved or disproved and is of course one of the major topics of philosophy.
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The worldview presented in the book is a bunch of nonsense, that's not even worth taking into consideration. I was going by the structure of the book, and what it was trying to say. It supports delision (which is also what this dangerous worldview it promotes does).
Let's have an experiment. Shoot surself and see whether or not your death is objective. 
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It is a bunch of nonsense to you and to Stephan Hawking and many others, but to many others (most?) it is not. No one knows who is right. The book tries to show a view where spirituality, 'leaps of faith' and indeed religion has a role in how we see the world. In my opinion it does an excellent job of delivering that message. As the tagline or whatever says, the book is not about making you believe in God, it's about making you want to believe in God. I don't take that statement litteraly, rather as a one liner describing the core message of the book.
As for your experiment, it makes me wonder if you understand what I am saying as it obviously would not give any answer to the philosophical question at hand.
