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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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
Btw., the question is who you are sucking up to. The most successful individuals tend to be the ones that let others suck up to them.
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Replying to @Plinz
Not at all. The most successful individuals are those who don't suck up to anybody and who don't let anybody suck up to them. Truth is the only value that they honor. Not money, not success in the environment.
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There is an Occam's Razor like relationship between the pursuit of truth and success in the environment (counted as wealth, influence, "creature comforts"). Anything more than the absolute minimum required is a source of bias. This bias needs to be minimized.
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Yes, I think for yourself it does. But I don't think it is obvious that the most powerful movements and civilizations have been built by telling their adherents the truth.
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