@Meaningness talked about "as-if"-beliefs (acting as if your belief was true, b/c if everyone acts as-if, the system works).
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which steals the idea from the book I summarized in https://vividness.live/2015/04/04/ritual-vs-mentalism … which
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I'm skeptical of their putting Confucius on the ritual team: I read the Analects after this book
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and he disparages people who go through the motions of rituals without sincerity!
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That’s interesting! Michael Pettit seems to have been the Confucianist on the team.
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Seligman (a rabbi) seems to me to have most of the insight? Not sure…
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I was wowed by the book when I read it, although it was very hard going because it’s so disorganized
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maybe an artifact of the way it was written - everyone wrote their own versions of each chapter iirc?
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That certainly is part of it! But the individual chapters are pretty incoherent too.
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I still think it’s a really important book with many significant insights
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