Commencements

We each seem to know what truth is; scientific, artistic, objective, etc. Pinning it down, however seems hard.
Take for a minute that humans are pattern matching machines - I'll return to this later. A truth can be defined as a pattern that works and works well. A bad pattern is one that doesn't work well and has glaring deficiencies.
In order to accept this one must accept objective reality. That is the measurable reality that we essentially sense.
It is perhaps prudent to mention that this reality is one of both chaos and order. Our objective observations have borne this out. We too are creatures of this reality: our scientific process still requires the chaotic process of discovering theorem and creating objective tests. If scientific method were truly analytical, we ought to be able to encode it and get a computer to do it - probably much quicker and more accurately. Unfortunately H2G2 was fiction.
Given we are creatures that in some ways mirror the universe as a whole, it's not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is sentient and intelligent like us.