I suspect therapy methods work better the more you believe in and trust them. This means there's something harmful about studying how well therapy methods work and publicizing that information, which is that they can cause the methods to work less well.
There's a question here for me about how you orient towards things that have the truth flag. I think people are tempted to invest in those things a kind of... reliance... that possibly nothing whatsoever deserves.
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I start with the axiom that all phenomena has a (usually boring) physical explanation and test my imagination against that. To claim that this axiom is arbitrary is to engage in a kind of motivated philosophical symbol manipulation. It's isn't arbitrary.
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Taken far enough, this axiom leads to interesting ideas such as god-as-memeplex. So I've gone from spiritual to agnostic to atheist to anti-theist to whatever you call belief in god-as-memeplex. If consciousness is emergent in complex systems, maybe god is kind of conscious.
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