thoughts on "metaphor"
People tend to think that something being "metaphorical" (like furry/kin identity, or mysticism stuff, or lots of other things) makes it less real.
That's kind of deeply missing the point. Our brains are *entirely* metaphorical. Our perception of the world passes through billions of years of evolutionary processing and filtering, and is only tenuously connected to a deeper fundamental truth. Approximations are all we have.
thoughts on "metaphor"
@starkatt But do we need mysticism when we can instead search for real knowledge?
Math may just be a metaphor, but it is an unbelievably consistent one, wheras mysticism is incredibly inconsistent.
thoughts on "metaphor"
@grainloom Scientific rationalism is a really, really useful tool for certain kinds of knowledge production. When it comes to say, medicine or moon missions, it'll be what I use.
But it cannot produce all knowledge. By saying "only knowledge produced via my means is real", scientific rationalism discards massive and important parts of human experience.
I used to be a rationalist (see "post-skeptic" in my bio) so I do understand where you're coming from.
thoughts on "metaphor"
@grainloom I guess I can sum up the last five or so years of my personal philosophic development by saying "Even through they're unverifiable, qualia matter."
