Dancing with absurdity: your most cherished beliefs (and all your others) are probably wrong
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTERTWO: BELIEFS 3
DECISIONS ABOUT BELIEFS 4
ORIGINS OF BELIEFS: I 5
PERSISTENCE OF BELIEFS 6
ORIGINS OF BELIEFS: II 17
CHAPTER THREE: PHILOSOPHY 18
RADICAL SKEPTICISM 19
THE BURDEN OF PROOF 21
THREE ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLIE ALMOST ALL CLAIMS TO KNOWLEDGE 22
CHAPTER FOUR: THE FOUR PILLARS OF KNOWLEDGE 25
CHAPTER FIVE: KANT'S PILLAR: A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE 26
CHAPTER SIX: PILLAR 2: RELIGIOUS FAITH 28
THE ORIGINS OF RELIGIOUS FAITH 29
A FEW STRANGE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 31
RELIGIOUS FAITH IS BENEFICIAL 32
DIGRESSION*MAYBE NOT SO BENEFICIAL 34
FAITH (OF OTHERS) IS VERY BENEFICIAL TO SOME 36
RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAVE GOD'S CELL PHONE NUMBER 36
MAYBE THEY HAD A BAD CONNECTION 37
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I DANCING WITH ABSURDITY
OTHER PEOPLE ALSO GET MESSAGES FROM GOD 39
POINTS TO PONDER 40
THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH 42
CHAPTER SEVEN: LEAVITT LIED 46
CHAPTER EIGHT: INTRODUCTION TO PILLARS 3 AND 4 47
CHAPTER NINE: PILLAR 3: REASONING 48
HUMAN REASONING IS IMPERFECT 49
EVOLUTION AND REASONING 52
INDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS 54
COUNTER-INDUCTION 57
INDUCTIVE INFERENCES ARE AMBIGUOUS 58
FORMAL LOGIC*DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS 59
QUIZ 61
CONCLUSIONS OFTEN COME FIRST 63
WE'LL NEVER KNOW IF OURTOOLS OF REASONING LEAD TO
VALID CONCLUSIONS 64
ANYTHING CAN BE PROVED 65
QUANTUM LOGIC 66
REASON DOESN'T TELL ABOUT THE WORLD 67
CHAPTER TEN: REASON AND SCIENCE IN OPPOSITION 68
CHAPTER ELEVEN: PILLAR 4: EMPIRICISM 73
KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES FROM DIRECT SENSORY EXPERIENCES 74
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON PERCEPTION 75
EMPIRICISTS FIGHT BACK*UNSUCCESSFULLY 75
OUR LOW FIDELITY MEMORIES 78
"KNOWLEDGE'THAT COMES FROM OTHER SOURCES 80
DECEPTION: PERSONAL, HISTORIC, JOURNALISTIC, GOVERNMENTAL,
CORPORATE, SCIENTIFIC 80
MOTIVES TO DECEIVE 82
MEANS 83
OPPORTUNITY 84
DRUGS 84
ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE BRAIN 85
NATURAL SELECTION 85
SECRET EXPERIMENTS? 87
INDIVIDUALS 88
N-1 AUTOMATONS: NOT EXACTLY A HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIO 90
SELF-DECEPTION 91
CORPORATE 92
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GOVERNMENTAL 93
JOURNALISTIC 95
HISTORICAL 96
CENSORSHIP 99
MAJOR CONSPIRACIES 99
DECEPTION*A NEW DIMENSION 100
SCIENCE 102
SCIENTISTS MAY UNCONSCIOUSLY BIAS RESULTS OR COMMIT
DELIBERATE FRAUD 102
HONEST SCIENCE 107
THE BASIC OBSERVATIONS MAY BE WRONG 107
MINISCULE CHANGES IN INITIAL CONDITIONS MAY PRODUCE
HUGE CHANGES IN ULTIMATE OBSERVATIONS 107
THE DATA MAY NOT BE REPLICABLE 110
BIOMEDICAL 110
THE DATA MAY HAVE BEEN ANALYZED INCORRECTLY 111
OBSERVATIONS REPORTED IN SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS MAY DIFFER
CONSIDERABLY FROM EQUALLY CAREFUL OBSERVATIONS OVER
THE SAME MATERIAL THAT GO UNPUBLISHED 114
THE MEDIA DISTORTS THE PUBLIC'S VIEWS OF SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS 115
INFERENCES: PART I 115
HARD SCIENCES 116
QUANTUM MECHANICS 117
THE SINGLE- AND DOUBLE-SLIT EXPERIMENT 119
UNSTABLE ELEMENTS AND WATCHED POTS 120
AHARONOV-BOHM EFFECT 120
PIGEONHOLES AND PIGEONS 121
QUANTUM ERASER 121
DELAYED-CHOICE 121
INTERPRETATIONS 122
THE MOST PROFOUND DISCOVERY IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE 124
MANY WORLDS 125
BEYOND QUANTUM MECHANICS 126
CHAPTER TWELVE: REASON AND SCIENCE IN ALMOST ONE VOICE 127
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: INFERENCES: PART II 129
MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, AND EVERYDAY LIFE 129
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: RECAPITULATION 132
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: CERTAINTY, LIKELIHOOD, AND PROBABILITY 134
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: REASONS FOR RESISTANCE 138
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I DANCING WITH ABSURDITY
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE 141
APRIORISTS 143
NON-DEDUCTIVISTS 143
PRAGMATISTS 144
TRANSCENDENTALISTS 144
VINDICATIONISTS 144
CONJECTURALISTS 144
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: CONCLUSIONS 146
SOLIPSISM 146
FREE WILL*MAYBE 148
PURPOSE*AVOID 151
BUT THERE IS NO GOD*MAYBE 151
AFTERLIFE*MAYBE 152
ON THE POSITIVE SIDE 157
QUESTIONS YOU'LL PROBABLY NEVER BE ABLE TO ANSWER 157
WORLDVIEWS OF PROMINENT PHYSICISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS 157
KEEP ON TRUCKING 158
EPILOGUE 159
APPENDICES 160
APPENDIX 1: PREDICTIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS BY EXPERTS 160
APPENDIX 2: WEALTH OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS 161
APPENDIX 3: SEX CRIMES OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS 162
APPENDIX 4: FRAUD AND OTHER CRIMES 164
APPENDIX 5: MURDER IN GOD'S NAME 165
APPENDIX 6: UNETHICAL RESEARCH STUDIES 167
APPENDIX 7: MOSTLY HARMLESS DECEPTIONS 170
APPENDIX 8: UNETHICAL CORPORATE BEHAVIOR 172
APPENDIX 9: LIES AND DISTORTIONS OF POLITICIANS 175
APPENDIX 10: JOURNALISTIC FRAUD 176
APPENDIX 11: EXAMPLES FROM PROJECT CENSORED 178
APPENDIX 12: MAJOR CONSPIRACIES 180
APPENDIX 13: SCIENTIFIC FRAUD AND OTHER FORMS OF MISCONDUCT 183
APPENDIX 14: FACTS, HYPOTHESES, AND THEORIES THAT AT ONE TIME
WERE WIDELY ACCEPTED BY MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS 185
APPENDIX 15: BELL'S PROOF 188
NOTES 190
CHAPTER 2. BELIEFS 190
CHAPTER 3. PHILOSOPHY 192
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CHAPTER 5. KANT'S PILLAR: A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE 192
CHAPTER 6. RELIGIOUS FAITH 192
CHAPTER 9. PILLAR THREE: REASONING 193
CHAPTER 11. PILLAR FOUR: EMPIRICISM 194
CHAPTER 12. REASON AND SCIENCE IN ALMOST ONE VOICE 198
CHAPTER 13. INFERENCES: PART II 199
CHAPTER 15. CERTAINTY, LIKELIHOOD, AND PROBABILITY 199
CHAPTER 16. REASONS FOR RESISTANCE 200
CHAPTER 17. CONCLUSIONS 200
APPENDICES 201
INDEX
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