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rezzeJ  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Universal Human Experinces Are You Missing?

I'm not so sure. It depends on how 'universal human experience' is defined. If it's defined as 'something that every human experiences in the same way,' then I would be in agreement. As this article and the linked visual imagination one within it show, our personal perception of experiences are anything but objective.

On the other hand, Cambridge Dictionary Online states that experience is simply 'something that ​happens to you that ​affects how you ​feel.' With this is mind, I'm more inclined to think of 'universal human experience' as an event or occurrence that the majority of humans encounter during their lives. Whether or not they all have the same subjective impression of said experience is irrelevant.

Of course we all percieve things differently and they'll always be exceptional outliers, but that doesn't mean that, for the most part, we don't all experience the same thing. A person who watches a football match experiences a football match, whatever their impression of it turns out to be.