Alejandro1 comments on Rationality meditation theory. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 12 January 2012 07:02:01PM 1 point [-]

If it turned out that there actually were two different people who had the two different reported experiences, but that one of those people had been inspired by reading the story of the other, how would you classify that?

Comment author: Alejandro1 12 January 2012 07:24:29PM 0 points [-]

I'd say both are real. But if the "secret" written down and read in the morning was also similar (and this was because the second person remembered the other story and this influenced his visions) then I'd say it was a case of memetic mutation, in addition to being real.