Re:Steve Jobs, LSD and Drug Freedom
by elemenohpee on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @07:15PM
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Well when you're going at it from that angle, how can you prove to yourself that anything you experience is real? There are centuries of thought surrounding epistemology, I don't see why problems of how and to what degree we know what we know should apply to drug induced experiences and not regular experiences.
But then again, I don't know what you experienced. The most profound insights I had make perfect sense to me now, and they mesh with current scientific understanding as far as I can tell, so I have no reason to doubt them.
I cannot prove [to myself!] after the fact that what I experienced under the drug was real. I obviously believed it at the moment I was under the effect of the drug, but afterwards I couldn't recall exactly why I believed that. In other words, there was no way to prove or explain it. So it's delusional -- an event is supposed to have happened but there is no proof of it.
There's simply no reason for me (now) to believe that what I experienced under the drug was real.
(As I said above, I still think LSD should be legal so we can scientifically look at reducing harms from people taking it)