Contemplative practitioners sometimes have great psyche-refactoring experiences, “insights”. But, when interpreting & integrating them, they fail to keep a strong enough epistemic distinction between their experience and the ultimate reality it arises from. And then they make crazy inferences about the nature of that ultimate reality.
Right. As several commenters have pointed out, I might be giving too much benefit of the doubt with the complicated explanation given that most people’s empirical and inferential engines aren’t exactly v8′s. That said, I hope the network refactoring angle is helpful to those who do have decent epistemic standards.
So is this a fair summary?
Contemplative practitioners sometimes have great psyche-refactoring experiences, “insights”. But, when interpreting & integrating them, they fail to keep a strong enough epistemic distinction between their experience and the ultimate reality it arises from. And then they make crazy inferences about the nature of that ultimate reality.
Right. As several commenters have pointed out, I might be giving too much benefit of the doubt with the complicated explanation given that most people’s empirical and inferential engines aren’t exactly v8′s. That said, I hope the network refactoring angle is helpful to those who do have decent epistemic standards.