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The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science

Author: Robert Anton Wilson Publisher: Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press. Publish Date: 1986 Status:💫 Rating: 5/5

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Nebulas

• The New Inquisition Chapter 1 Models, Metaphors, and Idols
• The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 2 Skepticism and Blind Faith
• The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 3 Two More Heretics and Other Blasphemies
• The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 4 The Dance of Shiva
• The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 5 Chaos and the Abyss
• The New Inquisition Chapter 6 Mind Matter and Monism
• The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 7 the Open Universe
• The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 8 Creative Agnosticism

Notes

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• Model Agnosticism
• Emic Reality
• Etic Reality
• Reality tunnel
• Reality labyrinth
• Synergy
• Transaction
• Neurosemantics
• Information
• The brain’s perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously interpret and edit their input
• Because perception is not absolute, all of our ideas are somewhat conjectural and inferential
• The water bowls experiment
• Pure Reason
• Things that philosophers thought they knew through pure reason often ended up being wrong
• The scientific method cannot lead to certainty, but only high probability
• Leap of Faith
• When a system of thought becomes less than totally trivial, an infinite regress of challenges manifest and it becomes increasingly uncertain
• We only rush to certitude when time pressure or prejudice is involved
• Idol
• The cock-eyed room
• The five stages of perception
• Language can be seen as a kind of metaphor
• The word “the” can be seen as a metaphor
• The word “is” can be seen as a metaphor
• The word “matter” can be seen as metaphorical
• A languages structure and grammatic rules can distort how we interpret and percieve reality
• The way we attend to something changes whatever that thing is to uss
• Anything that cannot be measured is considered meaningless or nonexistent to science
• Idolatry
• Fundamentalism
• When we mistake our models with reality itself, we stifle our capacity to learn new ideas
• We generally struggle to examine and criticize our own neural programs
• We ordinarily perceive reality through subjective biases shaped by our craving and attachments
• People have a tendency to become territorial over their belief systems
• Actively try to confront information that is opposed to your beliefs and expectations
• Without the potential for creative thought, people would only evaluate things mechanically through preheld beliefs
• Sombunall
• If skepticism is excessive enough it will invert itself into a blind faith
• Truth only applies depending on the context in which one is speaking
• Relative truth
• Self-referential statement
• Indeterminate statement
• Game rule
• Meaningless statement
• Strange Loop
• Po
• Facts are only appearances which we have decided to believe are factual
• We should think in terms of tuned-in and not-tuned-in rather than by existence and nonexistence
• The Right Man
• The Law of 23s
• Advertisers primarilly use conditioning and association to induce mass hallucitation
• Every fundamentalism perpetuates itself by repetition and group reinforcement
• Our left hemisphere unconsciously focuses on only a select few of the sensory signals it receives that it considers important
• The Right Man is turning off more sensory signals than is neurologically normal
• The reality that we observe is being co-created by our minds
• The linear view of causation is only a product of recent times emerging during the late Renaissance
• Psychedelics and mindfulness let in extra sensory signals by silencing the default mode network
• The finite models of the universe that we cling to lead us to discard the infinity of existential reality
• The more certain of our views we become, the more we perceive ourselves to be victims of an impersonal world
• People become hypnotized by their views to avoid having to deal with doubt and uncertainty
• Each perception that we make is best considered to be a gamble rather than a certainty
• The experienced world transcends the deterministic views of the fundamentalist
• Meta-programming
• Being directly aware and involved in what we are doing can increase our intelligence and creativity
• When we recognize the gamble in every perception, we realize the active and creative nature of our consciousness
• Things are only existentially real to those who believe in it and select it in their perceptual gambles
• Hypnotized consciousness
• Existentialist consciousness
• The ordinary and existentialist modes of consciousness behave like the wave particle dynamic of photons
• Powerful intrests have a strong desire to keep us locked into reality tunnels which they find profitable