... 'How can I construe every next thing they say to fit with my assumption?' - points toward the truth (or, rather, away from falsehood). The 'layer' itself is neutral. That is, you're talking about (I hope) correcting for bias: not transcending it (which is impossible). (3/4)
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Replying to @CarnunMP @G_S_Bhogal
As for stripping away layers: I admit, 'deeper' layers can seem to be more explanatorially (again, sp?) rich. Certainly, it seems more often than not that explanations propagate 'up' more frequently than 'down'. But this, too, is (arguably) something of a mistake. ;) (4/4)
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Disagree. Far-right is a crude umbrella term for an abstract group. Most of the time, it's too general to be accurate for gauging individuals, even "far-right" ones. And, one can indeed transcend *many* biases by removing topmost layers of information (e.g racism, leftism).
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @CarnunMP
And I think it is in fact those experiences we are most accustomed to that we are most susceptible to bias - we tend to always overlook the familiar.
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If this is true, why have we been most wrong for most of human history about that which is _outside_ of everyday experience? (E.g. the rest of the universe, the very big, the very small, etc.)
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Our models of the solar system are far less biased than our daily reads of the newspaper.
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Because we on;y had our experience to measure the universe, back then. As soon as we transcended our reliance on our own experience, our biased model of the universe (geocentric) ended and a more accurate model took its place.
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So, it was the invention of the telescope (or something like that) then? You've kicked the problem up a level. Why and how was the telescope invented? From 'experience'? It too didn't exist for most of human history: no-one knew how to make one. My guess is... (1/2)
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Replying to @CarnunMP @G_S_Bhogal
... someone made an 'assumption' ('Hmm... if I made a piece of glass like that raindrop...') which turned out to be OK. Infinitely many more bad ones are made all the time. Again, in each case, error-correction is all there is - to assumptions which *must* be made. (2/2)
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The telescope was invented by science. Science works precisely because it is independent of our everyday experiences. It acts as a filter between our experience and the truth. We need such filters, otherwise we lapse into irrational primate perceptions.
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Couldn't agree more! Well... maybe a touch more. I think we're always steeped in 'irrational primate perceptions', & that that's _fine_. B/c the point isn't to somehow transcend bias (which is, again, impossible), but to endeavour to cultivate biases which are less & less wrong!
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