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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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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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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It will be more accurate to phrase "survival of the fittest" as the "survival of the most sucking up". Sucking up to the environment means adaption. If the environment is good, it may lead to truth. But there is absolutely no guarantee. Most likely, the environment is delusional.
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Replying to @vakibs
Why? It just means that you have to relax your identification with the culture, and measure how helpful it actually is. And then improve everything you can.
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Replying to @Plinz
It simply means you have to decouple your quest for truth from the environment. These are two independent variables.
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You cannot deny your own conscious experience as the ultimate arbiter for truth. Now with this established, psychic or any such visions have to be evaluated on the exact same criteria as science: reliability, usefulness, creative capacity for new predictions etc.
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I am regularly discovering how my own conscious experience fudges my memory. My experience cannot be the arbiter of truth, because I have proven it to be unreliable. But I have discovered a few good things about making proofs!
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Replying to @Plinz
Every mathematical proof you make is arbitrated by your own conscious experience. A proof is useless for a dead man. A dead man cannot also discover if the proof is incorrect or if the assumptions are unjustified. I see mathematical proof as a means for supporting consciousness.
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Replying to @vakibs
Consciousness is a means, even though people like you and me might feel that it is the end. Its purpose is integration of regulation.
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