[ExI] A science-religious experience

[efc at disroot.org]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:

> "Prove that you have actually had experiences."
> 
> While it is technically correct that there is no absolute proof of anything beyond "the person who is having these thoughts - which
> this language defines as I - must exist to have them, therefore I exist", it is not very useful to go down to that level.
> 
> Moral and spiritual guidance rely on the premise that there is something to be moral and spiritual about.  By the time you're even
> having that discussion, it's generally taken for granted that one has experienced the things one remembers experiencing, et cetera.

A better way of saying it than belief and doubt "eating everything".