shokwave comments on Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 07 June 2011 05:43:13AM 0 points [-]

No, which would be hard-fought for beliefs, not correct beliefs.

Comment author: Peterdjones 07 June 2011 09:49:18AM *  1 point [-]

There's no reason they can' be both. Of course what we ultimately want is truth.Mysticism says you can grasp the truth about everything in a flash. According to non-mystical epistemology, it's a question of tentatively building theories and revising or abandoning them if they go wrong. Justification and corroboration are our proxies for truth.