From before. I seem to be doing these random scattered late night tweets on this. Basically trying to apply my escaped reality model to religious cognition (mostly the undeclared kind, not the formal stuff) https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1228953159017480193?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1228953159017480193 …
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By my generalization, everybody has a religion and there are no atheists. To map yours, take an inventory of your anti-matrices/matrixes. Worlds others seem able to entirely lose themselves in that you’ve convinced yourself don’t matter, and can safely skip participating in.
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Mine, based on my inventory of ignorables, has something to do with: sports, music, high finance, and deep tradition. They are my anti-matrixes.There’s probably a few more but they are the big ones that I assume I can ignore and skip participating in without serious consequences.
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It has to be an anti-matrix. Totalizing worlds others live inside that you’re on the outside of. Non-totalizing ignorables are a different sort of deal. So though I know nothing about quantum computing and mostly ignore it, it’s part of “science” world that I do pay attention to.
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Interesting to identify core counterfactual embedded in things you’re ignoring from within a religion. To take a traditional religion, Hinduism, I recall first skeptical thought I had: fine, world isn’t fair because karma, but how does karma math work for increasing population?
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There’s actually a decent answer (balance across yugas) but the point isn’t to go down that bunnytrail but to use the question to see a new aspect in things you’re ignoring, and then go down the bunnytrail of not ignoring them, which rapidly sucks you into very different concerns
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One reason I’m still religious about {sports, music, high finance, deep tradition} is that I haven’t yet nailed a lurking counterfactual that would allow me to stop ignoring them and start paying attention.
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Of course the main thing traditional religions try to ignore is “science”, which is why science-vs-religion is the classic cliche debate. Identifying the core counterfactual represented by science (nihilism, not specific disproofs of literalist beliefs) tends to drive abandonment
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Militant atheists tend to be terrified of the basic counterfactual to science: the possibility that life and existence might be meaningful.
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I’m personally on the nihilist-atheist side, but not militant about it
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