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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Not clear we can learn much more than we now do about any "understructure". The physicalists I know don't claim to know such things.
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To my eye, the difference is that science has an avenue to legitimately understand that understructure.
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That's why I've found myself enjoying secular occultism. I'm openminded about the supernatural but lack belief in gods as sacred authorities. I recognize god(des) exist conceptually, and I believe in magick, but I think many paranormal predictions are inaccurate.
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Yes, we look for patterns, maybe in hopes of controling the universe, to maybe understanding the universe's fundamentals, down to know if I'll need an umbrella
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"History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men"
-- Blue Öyster Cult
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Is the commonality you see also universalism? This is a way in which “The laws of physics are the same in all relativistic reference frames” and “scorpios are horny” have similar logical structures.
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