Do you need a worldview to function in every-day life? What would it be like to live without one? Can you imagine it? Does that idea scare or comfort you?
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist
worldviews are helpful, e.g., that is a bus, don't stand in front of it while it's moving
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Replying to @chagmed
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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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed
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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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist
please provide an example of worldview swapping and how it's useful
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Replying to @chagmed
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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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed
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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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed
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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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed
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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And if it's useful to be in relation to a deity as if it really exists, then that's fine too. So you don't have to stay in one view or another at all times, or worry about which one is "right". Just use whichever is useful for what you're trying to achieve in a given context.
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