Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”

Old news about the same old grift.

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    2 months ago

    i think you need more drugs. like not just dosage but types of drugs. this looks like one of those where if you aren’t fearing ego death when you read it i don’t think you can understand it.

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      2 months ago

      Is that the gold standard? Prescribe psychedelics and cross the threshold towards epistemology?

      I think I run 70% on coffee, 30% on sugar, 2% on alcohol, 16% on being a contrarian on the internet. But I might still be in dire need of the drug that makes me realize whether material existence is continuous or discrete… I mean my small brain thought that’s still an open question. And seems the author knows the answer to it. The entire essay foots on that very postulation. And I really must have missed something because they don’t even cite a reference for it. Was it settled in the 1960 in some of the referenced philosophy books? Or is it like …just drugs?