Thanks, those are all promising directions! I’ve edited to [about important things] in the question; in phrasing the post I had edited it from over-specified to under-specified and your feedback helps target a happier medium. “Important” is still vague, of course.
One way in which this happens is when someone accepts that their strong belief actually depends on some fact that they don’t know much about.
“rationalism reduces a thinker’s odds of forming or maintaining a strong belief which depends on facts they know little about”, a nice counterpoint to “for all the talk about changing minds, I don’t see it happening as much as I’d expect”. It suggests that seeing too many hard reversals among thinkers of a particular school would suggest that the school itself might encourage them to draw strong conclusions too soon.
I’ve seen some of my friends and acquaintances change their minds about psychoactive drugs.
The conversations about both the pros and cons of altered states, which don’t or can’t resort to “just get into the state and see for yourself”, seem likely to have great examples of communication about difficult-to-communicate experiences. And I have access to a lot of that content online! Thank you for the nudge toward connecting these existing observations in a more useful way than I did before.
Thanks, those are all promising directions! I’ve edited to [about important things] in the question; in phrasing the post I had edited it from over-specified to under-specified and your feedback helps target a happier medium. “Important” is still vague, of course.
“rationalism reduces a thinker’s odds of forming or maintaining a strong belief which depends on facts they know little about”, a nice counterpoint to “for all the talk about changing minds, I don’t see it happening as much as I’d expect”. It suggests that seeing too many hard reversals among thinkers of a particular school would suggest that the school itself might encourage them to draw strong conclusions too soon.
The conversations about both the pros and cons of altered states, which don’t or can’t resort to “just get into the state and see for yourself”, seem likely to have great examples of communication about difficult-to-communicate experiences. And I have access to a lot of that content online! Thank you for the nudge toward connecting these existing observations in a more useful way than I did before.