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If they think their sober perception is not reliable then why do they trust science or that they even exist?
by bowsamic 4y ago
If they think their sober perception is not reliable then why do they trust science or that they even exist?
- NateEag 4y agoI think that they have no other option than to assume that human observations are at least reliable enough to work with, even if sometimes they go a little crazy. I think that's actually why they focus on reproducibility - that's their tool for reaching something approximating a consensus reality in the face of experiential subjectivity, human unreliability, and the strong limits on individual human knowledge. Me, I think that reproducibility is really useful, but I'm not so willing to say that if it's not reliably reproducible it must be coincidence or delusion.