My addition—defragmentation/coherencing of mind
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Having now read, that seems like a double-edged sword because then you will be less likely to forget/break an incorrect memory/belief.
Stronger beliefs, but more tightly held.
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if do it right, everything is actually held more provisionally. everything ends up on a correctly calibrated knife-edge, where new evidence can lightly sculpt or reconfigure everything. cf criticality/"critical brain" stuff.
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(most people have a lot of surface activity and change but "deep beliefs" are fish-in-water heavily defended and rarely change even with crushing evidence.)
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these deep beliefs...that reminds me of what is called "the second veil" in the vajrayana
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Say more? I don't think that "supramundane" beliefs/insights are different in quality than mundane beliefs/insights. Like, some contingent/incidental structural differences but the whole thing is seamless.
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Okay, haven't read either the Mind is Flat, or Tiago's summary.
I did read an article about a month ago hyping the book.
My knee-jerk response then was, nope, the guy's missing something.
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Can't put my finger on it, but I'm suspicious of book's thesis.
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To me it seems something like "just because peoples' explanations for X are clearly inaccurate/fabricated/confabulated, doesn't mean X isn't real"
I'd want to hear a take on the flat-mind thesis from someone who groks its research & also brain hemispheres.
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The most striking thing about the book is how many of the claims are essentially just behaviourism.
With behaviourism being fairly thoroughly discredited as a philosophical standpoint, that's... bold. And not in a good way.