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#598 Chris Letheby: Philosophy of Psychedelics

The Dissenter

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The Epistemic Risks Are Smaller Than You Might Have Thought

Righd: Even when people have experiences with parent metaphysical implications, it's not as though everyone simply believes those implications uncritically. There is this trope that once you've had the full blown classic mystical experience, you can't help but believe that what you saw was real, because it feels so real. But i don't think that's universal either. No one who has an experience of that kind, i think, can simply dismiss it and say, well, that's nothing to take seriouslyut nor do you necessarily believe it sort of wholeheartedly, automatically and uncritical. So those are two reasons, as i said, looking at those particular epistemic risks as i deem

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