Is there a lens that can contextualize contradictory lenses without invalidating either, or averaging them into mush? Hats theory. Provisional flag-planting.
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Strong hat. Fuzzy hat. Serious hat. Whimsical hat. Respectable hat. Oppressed hat. Defiant hat. Oppressive hat. Big hat.
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That's actually an incredibly compendious synopsis of everything this hat represents.
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Did my homework.
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When you take time to understand hats that are radically different than any of the ones you've ever worn, you see that everyone else is just as convinced as you are that their hat is the most stylish.
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They have the same exact body sensations that go along with certainty as you do; the only thing that's different is the thoughts they use to rationalize believing that a body sensation means anything other than a body sensation.
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Whether everything is relative, or whether any one hat is The One True Hat, is not even the point. It doesn't matter. What you do know is that Homo Sapiens are evolved to try to interpret their body sensations in whatever way will help them survive and reproduce.
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There is no rational agent apart from this monkey brain, and the fact that anyone thinks that there is, goes to show just how good our brains are at getting us to believe that what we think about our sensations is what they actually are.
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If you feel like you are a rational agent apart from your brain that is seeing and interpreting the world from a privileged position - even if you don't think of it explicitly within a dualist framework - you're not actually seeing your sensations clearly.
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