Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

[Warren Ockrassa]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:

> On 5 Mar 2008 at 12:23, William T Goodall wrote:
>
>>> Others might argue that "the doors of perception were
>>> cleansed", letting one see another level of reality that
>>> was always there.
>>
>> Hallucinations are just the brain running wonky, not 'another level  
>> of
>> reality'.
>
> Prove you're not hallucinating your life, and you're not just a brain
> in a jar :) (The number of contradictions in this world? Jar is a
> shitload simpler)

He doesn't have to, Andrew. It's those who claim their experiences --  
which run contrary to observable, verifiable and apparently valid  
reality -- that must prove *their* livers are not the illusion.

As to brain in a jar: Occam would have something to say to you. The  
more parsimonious explanation is that the reality we appear to  
experience is valid, rather than the idea that this reality is an  
illusion covering a larger, more bizarre reality. That's just not  
parsimonious. Impossible? no. Unlikely? extremely.

What "contradictions", by the way, can you enumerate which make it "a  
shitload simpler" to believe we're brains in a jar?

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