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Everyone is a kind of essentialist in that they refuse to engage with people below their personal threshold for “person”.

I find it quite puerile how so few can accept their one of billions-ness.

“If you can’t encode and decode information how I do, you stink, and so does your technology or philosophy or whatever it is!!”

Religion is not the metaphors and poetry. It’s a biological state of conviction in one’s own essential ness to reality.

Electromagnetism as a theory did not work until Maxwell removed a bunch of imaginary pulleys and weights intended to simulate real objects.

Did Einstein rocket off at the speed of light before coming up with relativity?

All those things were later refined as they were the correct cognitive framework with inaccurate physical models behind them.