this seems exactly wrong to me, like isn't Not Science a defining characteristic?https://twitter.com/_jordan_bates/status/1083099011320610817 …
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would you say the engagement w phenomena inaccessible to rational methods tends to stay on the level of aesthetics / shitposting tho?
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if so this approach could still be seen as a kind of backhanded compliment / sophisticated defense mechanism / means of pseudo-'engaging' without earnestly engaging / a way to 'have one's cake and eat it too'
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interesting! what other kinds of alternatives do you have in mind as, hmm, loftier non-"""scientisitic""" approaches?
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good question might be cool if something like epistemic equivalent of what DFW called 'New Sincerity' influenced postrat peeps not just highlighting shortcomings of science/aesthetically playing w esotericism but earnestly aspiring to craft lenses that transcend/include sciencepic.twitter.com/X6nDQA7BQ6
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