Ep 439: Workshop | Abstract Activist | A Tutorial on Using the SE Survey, Day 1

May 21, 2021

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Recorded: 19 April 2021 Uploaded: 20 May 2011 Watch video of talk here: https://youtu.be/WU5q-wNWPo0 You can challenge yourself and a friend with the online survey: https://se-survey.web.app You can support my project here: https://www.patreon.com/AbstractActivist Twitter: https://twitter.com/Abstract_SE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AbstractActi... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/AbstractAct... You can Email me at: AbstractActivistSE@gmail.com You can buy me gifts at: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls... This event was possible thanks to: Street Epistemology: https://streetepistemology.com/ Street Epistemology International: https://streetepistemologyinternation... American Atheists: https://www.atheists.org/ David McRaney: http://davidmcraney.com You Are Not So Smart: (Podcast) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-So... Andy Norman: https://andynorman.org Explaining the science of mental immunity: https://cognitiveimmunology.net/ "Mental Immunity" by Andy Norman: http://www.harperwave.com/book/978006... Amazon: Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think: https://smile.amazon.com/Mental-Immun... 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:08 Saying hello & Survey overview 0:05:04 19. I often investigate beliefs that do not match my own. 0:07:38 20. I am comfortable with saying: "I don't know". 0:09:07 21. It is beneficial to find out when I am wrong about something. 0:15:03 22. I will abandon a belief if I discover reliable information that falsifies it. 0:20:59 23. The more unusual the statement, the stronger the evidence needs to be. 0:26:49 24. It is possible that some of my beliefs are not true 0:30:49 1. A statement is true when it corresponds to reality. 0:35:40 2. We all share the same reality and only interpret it differently. 0:39:37 3. Truth depends on the opinions and beliefs of people. 0:44:09 4. People create words and define their meaning. 0:46:22 5. A statement is true if everyone agrees. 0:49:10 6. Strong belief, even without action, can change external reality. 0:54:26 8. Someone can be certain something is true yet still be mistaken. 0:55:53 9. A test that cannot identify a failure is a valid test. 0:56:50 9. We should be satisfied with a test that can only confirm our claim. 0:59:53 10. If all members of a society share a belief, they are justified to hold that belief. 1:02:37 11. Believing something that is false feels just like believing something that is true. 1:03:54 17. Someone is justified in their beliefs until they are proven wrong. 1:05:31 Resolution 1:07:15 Outro You can challenge yourself and a friend with the online survey: https://se-survey.web.app The goal of SE is not necessarily to change a belief, but to exercise and explore good reasoning for how we know what we know. Is it possible to resolve differences of belief without debate? Are we open minded to the idea that we are close minded? What would it take to change our minds? I am an amateur philosopher. I can be wrong about my beliefs and would be happy to discover that I am. I encourage my viewers to consider this approach the next time we misunderstand or disagree with someone. Please consider multiple examples of this Conversation style before making a final judgment about it.