I agree that the subconscious isn’t just a giant lookup table, and that many people who make this error use it to justify practices which destroy other people’s minds. But there are some important techniques of making the subconscious work better that are hard to invent unless you imagine that the subconscious is mostly a giant lookup table. pjeby uses these techniques in his practice. Do you deny pjeby’s data that these techniques work? Do you even know which data made pjeby want to write “it’s just a giant lookup table”? If you do know which data made pjeby want to write that, do you mean that it was wrong for him to write “the subconscious is just a giant lookup table” and not “the subconscious is mostly like just a giant lookup table”?
I feel like you don’t think through the real details of what other people are thinking and how those details would have to actually interact with the high standards you have for the thoughts of those people. All you do is tell them that you think something they did means they broke a rule.
pjeby has provided very little data. He’s claimed that his techniques work. He’s described them in terms that (1) are supremely vague about what he actually does, and (2) seem to imply that he has gained the ability to change all sorts of things about the behaviour of the unconscious bits of his brain more or less at will.
There have been other people and groups that have made similar claims about their techniques. For instance, the Scientologists (though their claims about what they can do are more outlandish than pjeby’s).
None of this means that pjeby is wrong, still less that he’s not being honest with us: but it means that an appeal to “pjeby’s data” is a bit naive. All we have so far—unless there are gems hidden in threads I haven’t read, which of course there might be—are his claims.
I agree that the subconscious isn’t just a giant lookup table, and that many people who make this error use it to justify practices which destroy other people’s minds. But there are some important techniques of making the subconscious work better that are hard to invent unless you imagine that the subconscious is mostly a giant lookup table. pjeby uses these techniques in his practice. Do you deny pjeby’s data that these techniques work? Do you even know which data made pjeby want to write “it’s just a giant lookup table”? If you do know which data made pjeby want to write that, do you mean that it was wrong for him to write “the subconscious is just a giant lookup table” and not “the subconscious is mostly like just a giant lookup table”?
I feel like you don’t think through the real details of what other people are thinking and how those details would have to actually interact with the high standards you have for the thoughts of those people. All you do is tell them that you think something they did means they broke a rule.
pjeby has provided very little data. He’s claimed that his techniques work. He’s described them in terms that (1) are supremely vague about what he actually does, and (2) seem to imply that he has gained the ability to change all sorts of things about the behaviour of the unconscious bits of his brain more or less at will.
There have been other people and groups that have made similar claims about their techniques. For instance, the Scientologists (though their claims about what they can do are more outlandish than pjeby’s).
None of this means that pjeby is wrong, still less that he’s not being honest with us: but it means that an appeal to “pjeby’s data” is a bit naive. All we have so far—unless there are gems hidden in threads I haven’t read, which of course there might be—are his claims.