Re:Messages that can only be understood under the influence ...
by tuyiown on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:47AM
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I don't think it's self referential, the whole idea holds on that if you manage to do predictions that are confirmed, you still have to assume that your perceptions are consistent across time. As an individual you can check you perceptions across time, with several people you remove yourself as a variable.
I've been extreme in the formulations, but no, you don't need other methods, repeatable experiment with accurate predictions is enough. The heuristics are quite reliable. It's just that we tend to forget/ignore that everything that what we think of being true is just a large compound of beliefs, and that the only way to validate those beliefs is to use them to make prediction, and validate it through experiments.
Re:Messages that can only be understood under the influence ...
by mistermann on Friday June 09, 2023 @11:32AM
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Is this claim not self-referential? Did you apply its ~~recommended~~ necessary methodology to itself?
> Science is the only and sole way to determine our shared reality, anything else is literally lucky heuristics, including the behavior of scientists.
This too...plus, who will be performing these experiments if scientists are not trustworthy?
Maybe this is brand new territory and we need new theories (&/or revisit old ones) and techniques.