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We almost know nothing about how the brain actually works, so how can you talk about this with such confidence?
by whitepaint 4y ago
We almost know nothing about how the brain actually works, so how can you talk about this with such confidence?
- deltaonefour 4y agoSimple. I stare at a rock. The rock has no meaning even though I have no idea about the story behind the rock. The burden of proof is always on the person assigning meaning to something. Why? because from a probability standpoint, no meaning is more likely. So the person claiming dreams have meaning must prove why their claim is real despite the low probability. Why is meaning low probability? Because much more things in the universe have no meaning then have meaning. For example, greek mythology. I know nothing of it. Yet I can make the claim that it is false and have a higher probability of being right then the person who claims greek mythology is real and has meaning and knows everything about it. The majority of "meaning" is "found" the same way a christian "finds" meaning in the bible. It is common human behavior. By making a claim that someone has found meaning in some random thing this way, I am making a high probability claim because of the fact the behavior is so common.