indulging whatever delusions are necessary to make you feel important is just the dopamine management version of putting on your own oxygen mask first
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Replying to @sm0b0t
yes, that's absolutely appropriate free will isn't even a coherent concept and the experience of making choices is something that's being fed to your consciousness, not something that's happening in your consciousness but you still need to treat your choices as important
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in case someone happens across the above and is wondering what i'm responding to because they can't see it, it's the below, screenshotted from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/05/the-nitrous-oxide-philosopher/376581/ …:pic.twitter.com/vRZLkDl3UD
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Replying to @chaosprime
Gracious me. I do believe there is a name for exactly that epistemology.
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Replying to @StevenBrust
is there! did you bring enough to share with the class, Steven
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Replying to @chaosprime
All right, Alex, I'll take "Examples of pure pragmatism" for a hundred.
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Replying to @StevenBrust
oh no i will have to find some way to adulterate this pragmatism you know how i feel about purity
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Replying to @chaosprime
It becomes impure if believing it to be impure makes you happier.
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how accommodating of it. such a polite epistemology! is it from Minnesota?
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Replying to @chaosprime
No, but it did move here. It said New York wasn't cold and snowy enough.
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Epistemology is better when you start with canned cream of mushroom soup
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