Doublethink
You can keep any number of mutually contradictory beliefs in your head at once, so long as you don't examine them.
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Apparently in 11 different dimensions too.
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Cognitive bliss.
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What happens when you examine them?
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Consistency is overrated.
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That’s true. Humans have some kind of process isolation
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abstraction
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Or maybe our beliefs are better modeled as vectors in a Hilbert space, rather than propositions in classical logic.
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The analogy is someone whose brain contains, "x = (1,3,4,6,...), x = (100,3,4,6,...), x = (11,23,24,6,...)". That guy ain't Hilbert.
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