(quoting Romeo Stevens) Imagine if you had a sense of taste that could only detect 3 different responses: pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. Foodies, sommeliers and the entire world of indulging in the infinite varieties of taste would seem absolutely insane to you.
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Rationalists, I have some bad news for you about woo people. They have a sensory modality you don't and have a variety of languages in order to talk about their experiences with each other. Yes, they generally have bad epistemics and thus weird metaphysics related to all that.
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But *everyone* has shit epistemics, so that isn't a valid dismissal.
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Their sensory modality has no good instrumentation for quantifying it yet. It is essentially much finer detection of CNS activity in the body and all the ways such activation can propagate. The good news is that, like cultivating a palate, this is trainable.
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Super love this way of explaining it :)
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