feedback for ingroup/metarational twitter: imho UST/ingroup is biased in the direction of rationality/current scientific orthodoxy (despite attempting to transcend/include rationality) and overly averse to the value of 'the ineffable' / learning via direct experience thoughts?https://twitter.com/_jordan_bates/status/924124150939099137 …
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2/ this intuition emerged as a result of realizing i am averse to tweeting hypotheses too far outside current scientific orthodoxy for fear of losing favor w ingroup/UST friends curious if this 'danger' is rooted in reality or is something i'm projecting/over-blowing or both
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Replying to @eigenrobot @_jordan_bates
seriously hit me with your best shot
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man wouldn't know where to begin for instance i suspect consciousness is not an emergent property of brains but rather a more fundamental/omnipresent feature of reality and our brains/bodies are kinda like antennae tapping into a sea of consciousness this is a tame example
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a more 'out there' example would be my fairly strong suspicion that reality is teeming with (non-physical?) beings / entities / intelligences of various sorts, many of which possess levels of understanding/insight/intelligence that utterly dwarf our own
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hahaha I mean---! Check out these search results: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aeigenrobot%20egregore&s=09 …
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hahah funny you link this bc i had the thought that egregores are an exception & seem to be like the unofficial 'non-physical entity' mascot of postrat yet at the same time the concept seems to be used primarily playfully/metaphorically/aesthetically, not earnestly postulated
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oh here it is! yea you dont see "earnest postulation" of the ethereal OR the scientific. because the whole point is to play
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yesssss this especially! I think keeping things as a kind of Infinite Game, Carse-style, is an important implicit value we do . . . well, at our best anyway Play for the sake of continuing play is a high good
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