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All knowledge that can be gained through LSD is contingent and experiential, not universal and certain

I’m well aware through my own testing

EDIT: I’m not saying it is useless information for your life but it is particular to your life, not truths of the universe like the person I replied to claimed



Oh, of course, nothing about LSD can give me access to things that my brain just doesn't have access to. It can help with the things that already are in my brain though.


Your brain does have access to all rational truth


My brain has the ability to claim anything it wants as truth. I prefer for my truth to either be consistent with an objective or empirical truth, or be measurably opposed to truths I disagree with (and to a known degree). I don't always achieve this and I'm not always the best at being open-minded but it is the goal, I would think.


Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth, look for necessary truth, purely rational


Wha? Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth? What are you getting at there?


Empirical observation is contingent, so cannot be the basis of certain knowledge.


Everything is contingent on empirical observation. Our rational brains are the product of pattern matching algorithms trained on empirical reality. There is no basis for rational thought that is not downstream of empiricism.




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