[FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!

[Prof David West]

Nick stated:

"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?

davew


On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, at 9:23 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> 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? 
> 
> N
> 
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:41 AM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!
> 
> 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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