(2018-12-08, 05:53 AM)Mediochre Wrote: I don't think genuine skeptics are a real thing, I think everyone has a bias and the best thing to do is acknowledge and admit to that. At least that way you can catch yourself when you're reasoning because of that bias rather than pure logic, even though it will never be perfect.
Well a genuine skeptic has to be skeptical of their own conclusions, and their own doubts...really it seems to me that after a bit of training in logic and science a genuine skeptic is just a reasonable, reasonably educated person.
As to Psi's power...I have to admit I go back & forth on that. It seems entirely possible that Psi is largely useless for the majority of the population. That whatever makes it work is too random for most of us to access consistently.
Then again, who knows?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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