http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/All-hail-confirmation-bias-tp7593058p7593447.html
"I deplore a skepticism that drinks only 9/10ths of the potent, and then puts the glass down, burps, and walks away with a smug look on its face."
Excepting the mystic who recognizes that "ALL is illusion," has anyone drunk the full potent?
> While we're getting rid of concepts, let's just get rid of this
> foolish, unsubstantiated concept, "the world." What sort of heuristic
> is THAT?
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> N
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
>
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
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> From: Friam [mailto:
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> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!
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> I KNEW that confirmation bias was a problem and NOW this confirms it!
>
> I TOLEYA!
>
> On 4/24/19 5:25 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> > Our World Isn't Organized into Levels
> >
https://philpapers.org/rec/POTOWI?ref=mail> >
> >> In my view, our adherence to the levels concept in the face of the
> >> systematic problems plaguing it amounts to a failure to recognize
> >> structure we’re imposing on the world, to instead mistake this as
> >> structure we are reading off the world. Attachment to the concept of
> >> levels of organization has, I think, contributed to underestimation
> >> of the complexity and variability of our world, including the
> >> significance of causal interaction across scales. This has also
> >> inhibited our ability to see limitations to our heuristic and to
> >> imagine other contrasting heuristics, heuristics that may bear more
> >> in common with what our world turns out to actually be like. Let’s at
> >> least entertain the possibility that the invocation of levels can mislead scientific and philosophical investigations more than it informs them. I suggest that the onus is on advocates of levels of organization to demonstrate the well-foundedness and usefulness of this concept.
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