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#294 - John Vervaeke - Creating A Life Of Meaning & Wisdom
Modern Wisdom
Are You a Basian Agent?
We have too overly simplistic a model of rationality, to my mind. Your procedureal knowledge, youre knowing how to do things, your skills, that's a big part. Irrational you can be totally logical with a completely fixated egocentrism. And if you don't know how to form your prerspectival knowing, you're going to suffer from a kind of self deceptive behavior. So we have to see that for all the kinds of knowing, there are perennial and profound patterns of self deceptive, self destructive behavior. Any kind of systematic set of practices for ameliorating our self deceptive behavior is not just the logical machinery. It's also education of our inference
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