Turtles, Beliefs, and the Lie of Objectivity - Deepstash

Turtles, Beliefs, and the Lie of Objectivity

  • Wilson kicks this off with the "Turtles All the Way Down" anecdote: Some old woman tells William James that the earth sits on the back of a turtle, and that turtle sits on another turtle, and so on forever.
  • The turtle lady's thinker has built her prover a universe. So has yours. So has mine. So has every ideologue, influencer, ayahuasca shaman, and economics professor on the planet.

The point isn't who's right; the point is we're all standing on turtles, and every last one of them is hallucinated, even the ones that can do calculus.

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Content Curator | Absurdist | Amateur Gamer | Failed musician | Successful pessimist | Pianist |

What if your entire personality was just software—written by parents, schools, ads, trauma, and culture? 🤔 This is pt. 1 of the series.

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