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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.