What do you mean by "works" ? There are many hallucinations possible. What defines a working one from a non-working one?
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Replying to @vakibs
The mind of the sane person maximizes the chance to get reliable predictions. The psychic maximizes the chance to get impressive predictions.
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Replying to @Plinz
Impressive ? What is impressive if it is not reliable ?
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Replying to @vakibs
If you were to tell people with full confidence what their greatest fear is, you will probably impress 20% of them immensely. And if you are very perceptive and experienced and not very biased, perhaps you can guess it right even 60% of the time?
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Replying to @Plinz
I see. But why should a mystic care for other people ?
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I am trying to connect this with Indian philosophy, where psychic vision is understood as a completely personal experience. Its defining quality is Satya or eternal nature. So it has to be reliable. Anything else is understood as fleeting images.
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Replying to @vakibs
Every set of beliefs about the world is just a model that the brain of a person makes. Evolutionary pressure is towards the models supporting the best regulation, which tend to be the most truthful ones. If there are few psychics, it's probably because psychics are maladaptive.
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Replying to @Plinz
Evolution simply means adaption to the surrounding. There is no guarantee that it leads to truth, the delusion can be very easily shared.
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Replying to @vakibs
Not only is the individual selected by its culture, the cultures are selected among each other. Some cultures win in this next layer of the evolution, and on average because they encourage more successful models of reality.
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Replying to @Plinz
You think somebody who wins in reality TV is a good scientist? :)
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Not unless the culture manages to impose the right criteria on their reality TV competitions.
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