worldviews are helpful, e.g., that is a bus, don't stand in front of it while it's moving
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Agreed. We can distinguish between contextual worldviews versus absolute worldviews. If I'm working in the lab, then having a scientific worldview is useful. If I don't want to get hit by a bus, then having a model of buses as things that can kill me is useful.
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In that sense it's generally useful to have a bunch of worldviews up your sleeve that you can access as needed, without attaching to or identifying with any particular one as *my* worldview which is ultimately or absolutely *the* right one.
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please provide an example of worldview swapping and how it's useful
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Sure. Easy example of this would be re: working with different models as a meditation practitioner. If I'm stuck in my "rationalist skeptic" lens then I might find it difficult to investigate experience purely from a first-person POV.
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I might keep getting hung up on whether and how what I'm experiencing jives with an objective, scientific model of reality, and I might then dismiss or avoid certain experiences.
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If I can genuinely let go of that for a few moments, I don't have to worry about making my experience fit my worldview - I can simply observe what is happening.
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This seems especially relevant with tantric practices where you work with visualizing a deity. You don't have to worry about whether the deity exists and can be proven scientifically, because it doesn't matter for the sake of the usefulness of the particular practice.
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Nobody needs a worldview to function. Take up your wooden sword, I take up mine, one of us attacks -- no time for any worldview.
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