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Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)

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The Epistemic Responsibility of Believers in Supernatural Events

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I think it's crazy not to be open to the possibility like we understand so little about our universe. We don't understand consciousness at all pretty much. So just because humans have been believing it for a really really long time is not enough evidence for me. Like I don't think having looked it up and seen that glasses do explode. I will. That's why we didn't move out. You know like white people always stay in the house when there's a ghost there. But I like we're not those white people. Like we would just move out like the ghost house now. Yeah. And then to your charge of epistemic responsibility. I guess that's what it boils down

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