Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
by stallmanite on Saturday August 31, 2019 @02:34PM
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I wonder what is the underlying urge behind the woo purveyors. There is more than a lifetime’s worth of weird trippy stuff that is 100% legit. There’s no need to muddy the waters; mystery abounds in the real world.
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Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
by tux1968 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:11PM
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It's hard to be an expert in Legit. You're instantly the sole authority on woo you invent.
Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
by ben_w on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:07PM
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I was briefly interested in woo as a teenager — Wicca, telekinesis, shapeshifting, that sort of thing.
One of the fascinating oddities I learned from that period is that several different founding mothers of Wicca — Valiente and Farrar come to mind — met people who thought the rituals they has created around and soon after WW2 were actually thousands of years old.
I can’t put the connection into words, but it feels like this is related to “Joy in the Merely Real”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...
Plus a dash of the way a beginner can totally misunderstand words of art and invent their own totally inaccurate understanding of what’s going on.