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Originally Posted by Seashore
I'm still listening to Segment 1.
Andy just said something that bothers me. He said something about using teleportation to abate global warming. Huh? Surely he knows (and knew - this interview was only 2 months ago) there has never been "global warming." Or maybe he doesn't know. If not, why not?
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Compartmentalization is a natural process in the mind, people may arrive at conclusions through their natural lived experiences that through repetitious experience provide self obvious truths. The scientific principle relies on repeatable provable results to reach conclusions.
Commonly held beliefs do not always follow these guidelines and people tend to file information such as this in the "Everybody knows that" file without directly testing those assumptions with research, data or even intuition. if people are not personally attached to some subjects enough to do deeper study, they may well fall back on "Consensus Reality" unless otherwise engaged in an interest to study further.
There is the whole area of emotional attachment to beliefs as well as attachment for payoffs, be that self identity payoff,emotional payoff, peer group payoff, cultural payoff ect ect ( its a long list so lots not and say we did).
Its funny really I used to think about this in some area's about people whose Intellect or Wisdom I respected. I would think "how could this person not know that this thing that i know is a fact" or at least closer to a fact than they are aware of. A trap of ego that one methinks perhaps even a sticky wicket maybe even a slippery slope, ok enough already!
Point is versions of reality are fractured by their very nature of individualization of our species, bummer eh
Andrew Basiago is a somewhat linear thinker who respects the scientific mind so unless otherwise engaged by the subject he perhaps may just go with the consensus reality until otherwise proven false.
In any case I enjoy listening to his story as it is a great adventure, can I personally through life experience back it up? Hell no, but its possibilities are interesting none the less
