Ah, I see. I think we found the difference; I’m not instrumental about knowledge.
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Consciousness is also fake btw. Dualism is bunk.
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I don’t think “fake” is meaningful when talking about epistemology. But consciousness is emergent, sure, and dualism is bunk, yes.
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I am being overly dramatic when I say fake. What I mean is "not an object"
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Oh, sure. But we spend much of our lives interacting with “non-objects.” So isn’t it still meaningful to make theories about them?
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for instance, if I am concerned someone is upset, I should firmly separate my observations from my inferences
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For sure. But that’s true about all knowledge: map vs. territory, etc. Your observations are subject to uncertainty too! :)
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To continue your analogy, you discover territory but you invent maps.
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You can’t really discover territory; you can only make theories about it with maps and then try to falsify those theories.
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I think we are running into that difference you pointed out earlier again :)
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Specifically: I don’t think it is possible to demonstrate your map to be correct.