there’s a take i think of internally as the “minimal but respectful take” on astrology, tarot, magic, etc. which is that nothing is happening that violates known physics, but that the human mind is capable of discerning real signal from more info than the west assumes
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"Capable of" and "reliably" are two very different things.
My curiosity here is something like, if two people witness the same event but disagree on what happened, what is your response? Not even talking about anything "woo." Just basic eyewitness testimony.
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for sure, no disagreement there
really depends on what other information is available ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what do i know about them? how are their facial expressions and body language? who seems more likely to be biased in any particular direction?
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Sure, those are all important factors! But the end result still seems to be concluding that one of their reported experiences is false? Or maybe even both.
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why? in a blind-men-and-the-elephant way they may both have seen (and emphasized in their memories) different parts of the same underlying reality
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Maybe, yes. Some situations are definitely elephants.
But "how many people ran out of the building" isn't one of them, and to me neither is much of woo. The more it's centered around shared reality, the more my own senses and memory get intrinsically disrespected by proximity.
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