This, but generalized, is the syndromepic.twitter.com/Rd6zp3MqMK
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This is also why it seems like a Trump has no beliefs. That’s because he doesn’t. He’s never entered the beliefverse. Only pushed buttons without understanding what they mean, because meaning rests on mutuality and belief.
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But you can’t say he exists in pure doubt like some idealized spherical philosopher in a vacuum, because to know doubt you have to have experienced, and recovered from, belief. As best as I can reconstruct what it is like to be in his head, it must be a sensory-aesthetic soup.
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Knowledge is far less satisfying than belief.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1302123436798435329?s=21 …
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The mathematician in the joke still isn’t living with knowledge alone. He shares the belief-concepts “sheep” and “field” with the other two. It can unravel way more than that.
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I’m not arguing about whether it is stupid. I’m arguing about whether it is possible. It’s clear;y possible and something normal people can experience if they want, whether or not it’s stupid. He can’t.
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