im in that awkwardly narrow place between "the ppl who believe in magic/woo are mostly wrong" and "but also all the sciencey physicalists are mostly wrong too"
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it feels like both categories are doing the *same kind of thing*, which is building models of the world to control the world and make predictions. Both of them fail when they try to use this to point at the understructure, imo
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The error is becoming a mystic or an empirisist exclusively instead of a full on epistemologist.
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This can help start to make sense of the process.
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It may be socially narrow, but conceptually idealism is vast, expansive and empirically proven (IMHO)!
Materialism is 20th century religion. It is woo to believe in an single external shadow concrete world outside of us that no one has ever directly seen or touched
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It is not woo to believe that that which you experience is true (consciousness)
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The science ones are at least wrong. The magic/woo people are not even wrong.
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that is the main problem
plenty of physical effects formerly (and probably today) classified as "like magic" or unknown but the woo people have no viable research program 😬
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