There is something about the offness that these are normal things that have been changed in some way. There's a little bit of a, you know, the Venn diagram has some overlap. You can tell that there's something off about this representation, but you can't really say what it is. And I think maybe that disgust for some things is like something looks like a normal human, but something is off. Like that might be creepy inducing creepy creepy.
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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