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RE: "Positive thinking": Why is it a hit and miss experience?

in #philosophy8 years ago

Great! Let me remark that I didn't say 'rambling'. You've been nothing but reasonable and articulated so far, and I thank you for it.

But of course, I disagree with the paralysis argument. From Cromwell's Rule I'd argue that we have 100% certainty of nothing at all, but from that does not follow paralysis. We act on what is most probable from our perspective. The matter with the Global Counsciousness problem is that they haven't been able to persuade unbiased scientist with evidence, so we there's no cause for lay people like myself to believe in them for they authority.

The fact I cannot definitively prove either X or not X is true, doesn't mean they're equally probable.

Now, in your mentalist example, he should indeed be worried with discovering what is causing his techniques to fail in some people, because it might help him become more effective. In the church example I gave you, it is usually said that if you didn't get the miracle, it was because of your lack of faith. So there's no falsifying hypothesis. How's it different from your proposition?

But you did provided me with the answer I asked for. The reason you are extrapolating beyond the limits of our scientific knowledge is because of personal experience. Now that's interesting. I frequently say that's the only fair reason I ever encountered to justify religious beliefs. But the problem is, it is only valid for the person experimenting it. Should we allowed ourselves to be persuated by them, we'd by converting to new religions on a daily basis.

Our conversation here's probably coming to an end, but could I ask you one more thing? You said we choose our reality. Every phenomena creates a parallel universe and we choose which is preferred, or something similar to that, right? Doesn't it mean both universes will have a “you” on it? And if so, both yous expected to be in the good universe, but only one you gets to be there, even though you were both exactly the same. Doesn't this invalidate your premise that we can control this phenomenon, since your probability of getting into the right universe is 50%, regardless of your conscious efforts?