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R7.5 The Forms, the Matrix, and AI w/ John Vervaeke

Ancient Greece Declassified

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Plato's Conformity Theory

i'm not sure t's totally anechinistic to attribute it to plato because, you know, especialy whe you get to late plato. And second of all, even if it was an achronistic, i'm a fan of anachronism. But like you, i actually believe that all thinkers are getting at something real. I take very seriously d c shine argument. It's becoming increasingly clear that a lot of the biases that are studied in cognitive science can be just seen as versions of egocentrism. We have your bias and my opponent's bias - then we do this sort of biasing which seems to have an adoptive function. You

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