It turns out that our minds and our organisms don't exist on the same plane. We are not social primates, we just happen to run on the brain of one of them. We are only partially and sketchily identified with the organism itself and identify with/regulate many things outside of it
If we can in principle have no evidence then we must have no confidence. All actions and beliefs based on nonzero confidence in cosmic agency are therefore refering to a fantasy, regardless of the actual groundtruth.
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Do you believe that humans have agency?
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Yes, I see it as the ability to define and act on one's goals. Kegan's stages describe a ladder of increasing agency.
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In principle, I agree. In practice, however, I have two disciplines, and only one of them is scientific.
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It seems to me (with less than full confidence) that as artists, we can play with truth, but we cannot refuse to serve it.
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