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Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by Elof on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:56PM (#29492193)
Interpretation informs perception and perception isn't some constant in the human experience. A difficulty of classification can absolutely be a problem of perception because none of these things exist in a vacuum. Literally every human interpretation of reality is at best an approximate summary of what we experience of reality because it's impossible to remove bias and, believe it or not, we still don't know everything.
Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by GoblinSlayer on Thursday December 09, 2021 @03:37AM (#29495168)
We don't know everything, but we discern reality just fine. Those are two different claims.
Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by Elof on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:14PM (#29503704)
Sure, we discern reality, but that doesn't mean our perception isn't biased or correct.
Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:01AM (#29508542)
Seemingly you talk about interpretation and theoretization, not perception. We have problem with building far reaching theories based on perception, but an error in a theory is not a bias in perception, see the color example above.