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Very Bad Gurus with David Pizarro & Tamler Sommers

Decoding the Gurus

CHAPTER

Sciantism

The way we understand the universe at the deepest level is in total flux, and it's also deeply weird and strange. And if science doesn't encompass your entire epistemology then you can leave room for the basis of these reports from ancient times to now. I don't think they are crazy people who have reported seeing things that aren't there. The scientific method is very effective,. That doesn't mean it captures all truths, or that all ways of understanding reality are amenable to that. We might well wait the other explanation that it doesn't exist more highly, but you would not be prepared to discount it.

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