How much of the whole fetishizing over ultimate truth in cults and other forms comes down to nothing more than "I had an experience in this particular way, so it must be the True Way(tm)"?
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Yeah! Are they as boring as mine?
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I am also interested in your psychedelic experiences, if you would be kind enough to share. I'm very curious about why you say they were boring. Mine have been anything but.
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It's a half-joke. I have just never had any kind of earth-shattering experiences. If anything, the only deep, profound thing I discovered is that I am antifragile to weirdness.
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E.g. I was pissed off with a friend of mine before we went on a shroom trip together, the result of which was that I spent half my time trolling him mercilessly.
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The key insight was that sensory experience is fallable to an extent and that even ontological truth is determined by collective agreement re: sensory phenomena. The physicist I think didn't believe in that layer of collective agreement, and saw truth as a binary "is or is not".
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Did you ask them if they thought physics was ontologically complete? The response would be... interesting.
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I imagine they'd cite their atheist status as a response when I'd inevitably have to frame it as "do you think real things exist but whose existence physics cannot determine?"
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