Amplify?
This ideal of pure reason is a poor substitute for people in their lives. Amplify?
Many human beings that I meet go around with a lot of false beliefs, dark side epistemology, negative (false) beliefs about the out-group or the ideological enemy, and even religious and spiritual/mysterious nonsense. Why?
My opinion is that people do this to make themselves feel good. If you're not very clever, it probably makes you feel better about yourself to claim that "all truth is relative" and "science can only go so far". If you have a shitty j...
BHTV episode with myself and Adam Frank, author of "The Constant Fire", on whether or not religious experience is compatible with the scientific experience, or worth trying to salvage.