consensus reality isn’t wrong, tho it just has no authority greater than individual reality (which has no authority over reality, of which we have no direct experience)
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Replying to @averykimball
Reality is being perpetually cannibalized and reconstituted by a process of bottomless recursion known as human perception.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @averykimball
I want you to think of reality less as a sequence of events and more like a brain that has suffered a cataclysm, leaving the hapless owner to confabulate past experiences according to shaky logic. Or a forest that mostly burned down and then regrew in a completely different way.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @averykimball
why privilege the real over the imaginal anyway? > real things tend to last longer { but are no more meaningful as a result }
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Replying to @CountJ0ecool @Alephwyr
why not? anything can be imagined, but without a criterion of quality about what *should* be imagined, why imagine anything at all? even solipsists and hedonists (tacitly) privilege reality, just the reductive, comfortable, parts of reality (their own cope)
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Replying to @averykimball @CountJ0ecool
Once you really understand the chaos entailed by subjectivism, you can only believe in rationalism, even if it's just the rationalism of a subjectivist; rationalism builds walkable ground that won't fall out from under, subjective nonsense about angels, gods, and ghosts does not.
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Kierkegaard says faith is more solid ground than fact. I must conclude Kierkegaard has not tried both.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @CountJ0ecool
(classical) rationalism is foundationally subjectivist- and its “unshakiness” is *exactly* like the unshakiness of faith, another subjectivist moral technology kant’s a prioris are Idealist, after all
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Replying to @averykimball @CountJ0ecool
I mean more like Popper. Pre-Yudkowskian Tarskian scientism basically.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @CountJ0ecool
oh, well, i think popper has enormous merit, but he was explicitly *anti-foundational* shakiness is a virtue to popper, that shake is a clue to the next Problem (in the pragmatic sense) for us to solve
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I don't think most people realize that their entire ability to do rationality of any kind is contingent on having a brain that developed in a certain inductively predictable environment, and if induction breaks and the environment radically changes reason becomes impossible.
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