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Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin by bowsamic on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @01:01AM (#44295893)
All knowledge that can be gained through LSD is contingent and experiential, not universal and certain

I’m well aware through my own testing

EDIT: I’m not saying it is useless information for your life but it is particular to your life, not truths of the universe like the person I replied to claimed

Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin by LoganDark on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:17AM (#44297472)
Oh, of course, nothing about LSD can give me access to things that my brain just doesn't have access to. It can help with the things that already are in my brain though.
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin by bowsamic on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:14AM (#44297750)
Your brain does have access to all rational truth
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin by LoganDark on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:31AM (#44297862)
My brain has the ability to claim anything it wants as truth. I prefer for my truth to either be consistent with an objective or empirical truth, or be measurably opposed to truths I disagree with (and to a known degree). I don't always achieve this and I'm not always the best at being open-minded but it is the goal, I would think.
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin by bowsamic on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:32AM (#44297864)
Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth, look for necessary truth, purely rational
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin by adastra22 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @10:44AM (#44299898)
Wha? Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth? What are you getting at there?
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin by bowsamic on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:30PM (#44300957)
Empirical observation is contingent, so cannot be the basis of certain knowledge.
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin by adastra22 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @09:46PM (#44305912)
Everything is contingent on empirical observation. Our rational brains are the product of pattern matching algorithms trained on empirical reality. There is no basis for rational thought that is not downstream of empiricism.