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@QuestionAbyss

The greatest journey is the one we take to discover ourselves, or is that what this is really all about?

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What is "epistemic asymmetry?"
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@QuestionAbyss Apparently George has hit the nerve of AI'S in-group biased programming.
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Why do so many people seek a "fast, short, loud, bells-&-whistles" type winning line in a complex-topic argument when it's almost always the case that in complex arguments that the answer is likely to be an unflattering complex answer?
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Is the social media concession of defeat hallmark *no replies* to a post that can't be attacked dishonestly, strawmanned, or have its goalposts moved, and forces the sophist towards admitting they are wrong?
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Why do woo-based practices only treat negotiable, reversible, low-stakes, non-urgent issues?
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Why are there no woo-based emergency facilities on earth that treat accident specific things like a burst appendix, heart attacks, shattered bones, strokes caused by blood clots--why does medicine only handle this?
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Does scarcity and high drive for the same things lead people into a case of Gerard's Mimetic Desire?
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Instead of forming rational viewpoints, does our brain really just manufacture justifications to satisfy what our bodies and instincts want?
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When a bridge needs to be built over a canyon, how do we determine the weight limit using personal intuition rather than mathematics?
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Are systems that require proof and evidence inferior to systems that prioritize comfort, certainty, and social alignment when trying to decipher the exact nature of reality?
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Is personal intuition and personal research superior to the scientific method?
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At what age do we choose the brain architecture we were born with?
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Why did fMRI confirm the findings of the Libet Experiments?
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What do you think? Since science apparently doesn't get everything 100% correct, what is the underdog, omniscient system we are going to replace it with... Coin tosses? Bird signs? What do you say we replace it with?
Frank Carter@FleeciiiOct 14
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Right now some of the best scientific study on the subject says a coin toss beats science. There is a replication problem in science now, with some areas of inquiry having experiments replicable only 10% of the time, like in cancer research.
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What year, in this century or in the centuries ahead, will at least 75% of the population finally get that science is just a method of testing that excludes human biases?
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When the jokes write themselves...
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If you cannot choose your next thought, the how can you claim you chose the action it caused?
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Which personal "choices" are not bound by the laws of physics?
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Pure Twitter gold...
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If a physical brain tumor can dictate one's desires, who or what, really, is *choosing* the desires?
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If an immaterial soul has no physical properties, then what are the defining characteristics that say it is not just an illusion?
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