You must express false beliefs as if they were true so that you can momentarily live in the world in which they are true and often discover that to be the world you live in. "Crede, ut intelligas," i.e. "Believe so that you may understand" – St. Augustine, Tract. Ev. Jo., 29.6
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this seems like a thing that
@chaosprime and I have been talking about periodically for the last several years superposition of many different possible beliefs, collapsing the belief wave-form to yield a specific understanding3 replies 1 retweet 28 likes -
So, a superposition of eigenbeliefs collapse to a singular due to...an epiphany? Many times this is how it feels to me. Plus it’s an interesting twist on Minsky’s Society of Mind.
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but also I love this and think it is correct and im delighted by the nominalistic serendipity
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