TheAncientGeek comments on Rationality Quotes May 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 May 2014 12:18:36PM 0 points [-]

So are they sincerely ,mistaken about that they think unmediated experience is, or about what you think it is?

Comment author: satt 10 May 2014 05:04:28PM 1 point [-]

(Presumably your first "that" is meant to be a "what"?) That question implies a false dichotomy too. The mistaken people might not be mistaken about what anyone thinks unmediated experience is; perhaps everyone pretty much agrees on what it is, and the mistaken people are simply misremembering or misinterpreting their own experiences.

This conversation might be more productive if you switch from Socratic questioning to simply presenting a reasonable definition of "unmediated experience" according to which unmediated experience exists. After all, your true objection seems to be that I'm using a bad definition.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 11 May 2014 11:47:39AM *  0 points [-]

Anybody can be wrong about anything, That isn't an interesting observation, because it is general. Earlier you gave a specific reason, which you think is empirical, and I think is partly conceptual.