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Yes, I agree and this in part is what I had in mind when I talked about "human diversity".

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When it comes to tendencies, attitudes, dispositions and so on, I have only encountered human diversity, so for me any view which characterizes people...

That may be your experience, upon which you are apparently extrapolating and speaking for others. I can tell you that what is an hallucination and wha...

Sure you can interpret things differently if you alter your consciousness, but it doesn't follow from that that anything determinate is the case about...

If youve never seen a billiard ball float in the air or fall through tabletops, then you might hold a view as to what is physically possible, and that...

I don't know, I don't know what examples you are referring to or what "reality as we all know it" refers to. I don't deny that people may have unconsc...

Can you provide for your contention that people cling to “some core conviction regarding the nature of the world via which we assimilate all novel inf...

These are good questions and for me highlight esoteric ideas' reliance on faith (since you could hardly expect, even just based on definition, esoteri...

I don't care what anyone thinks meaning that what I think is most important to me. If you say all people have metaphysical worldviews and cling to the...

I had already seen the argument and commented on it previously. I like to keep it simple. The Heat Death may be the most favored current scenario, and...

Don't bother, your memory of it will be an illusion anyway.

How do you know that, or even how to understand what I am asking you, if all your memories are false? No, that is a false memory of some knowledge you...

There are many memories of me, whether false or not, and you don't have hardly any of them.

Both these sentences above are mere tautologies. If we are most likely BBs then our scientific theories are most likely incorrect, which means that th...

I think this is an egregious generalization—all I can think of to say in response is "speak for yourself".

Certainly, in relation to science or mathematics or any subject where much information has to be incorporated into a coherent understanding of the fie...

You gave it as a justification for your belief. I don't know who you are referring to nor do I understand what you are trying to say in your second se...

I get that, but if we are BBs then our scientific theories are incorrect; this is straightforward paradox, it has something in common with the "Liar' ...

You're just doubling down and are still ignoring the fact that if we are BBs our scientific models are incorrect; illusory because based on illusory m...

I think you are confusing yourself by thinking in terms of paradigms...that's not how science works. In any case I think that way of thinking about it...

No, you have it backwards, if we are BBs our scientific models are necessarily incorrect (assuming that it would even be possible for BBs to have scie...

If we are Boltzmann brains—random quantum fluctuations will false memories—then it stands to reason that all our science is completely wrong because b...

So, an argument from authority then? Even worse, it seems that they are not really saying what you seem to want them to be saying.

I'm closer to saying that there is no metaphysical speculation; it is rather metaphysical imagination. We speculate only about that which might later ...

Yes, as I said, inductive inferences, unlike valid deductive inferences, are not logically necessary. I don't think so. All we have to go on in order ...

The question wasn't addressed to you, but it was this: apparently the theory of Boltzmann brains entails that our memories are illusory, cannot be tru...

The way I see it is that something should be thought to be less likely if it is less plausible in light of our experience, less consistent with that e...

That just begs the question by assuming that our scientific theories show that we are most likely Boltzmann brains, it doesn't explain how a random fl...

Gymnastics, like math, is constrained, disciplined, and logical inconsistencies may have poetic value, and that's the way I see metaphysics: as poetry...

And the multiplication of entities? Or is it merely a shift in consciousness, in feeling, away from the neurotic need to understand, that leads to the...

Yes, I think that's true of "Everydayman". I also agree that all humans are intellectually and morally equipped in the same manner, but I find myself ...

:up: Yes, I think I do, but some are not satisfied with being unable to attain the unattainable.

I also feel absolutely certain that solipsism is not the case, but since it cannot be proven to not be the case, I cannot be absolutely certain. That'...

No, it is a fact that some interpretations of our current scientific theories entail that we are more likely to be Boltzmann brains than ordinary huma...

Solipsism cannot be defeated with certainty, but it is defeated by plausibility. You say, "in the case that I think there is no world", but no one or ...

Yes, I would say that discussion performatively, if not logically, presupposes the existence of a mutually experienced world external to the body. We ...

The usage of 'esoteric' relevant to this thread is in connection to religious or spiritual teachings and metaphysical claims, not to disciplines like ...

I don't see evidence of "deep commitments" commonly at large in the human society I inhabit. I don't deny that most people care about things—notably m...

So, what do you think counts as esoteric knowledge then? Or can you give an example of what you would count as an esoteric tradition? Difficult physic...

I would say that it might not logically presuppose the existence of a world, but that it does pragmatically presuppose it. No one really believes they...

Esoteric knowledge is usually claimed to be knowledge by revelation or enlightenment, and hence. by implication, to be infallible. The very concept of...

Of course people can deceive others, and even themselves, about what it is they truly believe. I haven't claimed there is not more to belief, in the p...

I don't deny that people make decisions based on intuitions: I do myself all the time. But firstly, I don't believe any intuitive (or propositional fo...

Fundamental understandings are just what is taken for granted given the empirical nature of our lives and the necessity of the notion of causation in ...

If you are not merely referring to know-how or to belief and the fact that our worldviews may to some degree change the way we actually live and perce...

It is not that denial of an external world, or solipsism, is logically contradictory, or else those views would long since have been put paid to. The ...

:100: That most people probably just pay lip service in the actual living of their lives to their basic assumptions about the nature of reality is a t...

I read Maxwell years ago and found myself disagreeing with his thesis that science is neurotic because it fails to acknowledge its metaphysical assump...

It seems more accurate to say that science makes pragmatic, that is methodologically determined, assumptions.