"It's not going to be something that we get in the like phedron collider or something that that tells us about it," he says. "I don't think it overturns the value of rationality at alllike I think it's just a and this is like it just yeah." He adds: "Maybe there is part of me wants to just accept that this is a category of experience that might give some meaning and insight into life and existence"
David and Tamler talk about William James’ chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of Religious Experience." What defines a mystical experience? Why do they defy expression and yet feel like a state of knowledge, a glimpse into the window of some undiscovered aspect of reality? Is Tamler right that David has a little mystic inside of him just waiting to burst forth from his breast?
Plus – another edition of VBW does conceptual analysis and we’re sticking with ‘c’ words – this time the definitive theory of ‘creepy.’
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