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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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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Yes. My strategy is to completely dismiss the environment as a source of truth. But I cannot recommend my strategy.
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