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I have not read too widely, but I remember coming across a paper while I was still in school. It discussed about the face that we experience in our dreams that we do not know in real life, and proposes that while our conscious mind discards the sight of random people we see in the day, our subconscious mind saves it temporarily and that is how they appear in our dreams.
I have also read about the debate between the ancient Rationalists and Empiricists, that the former argues that 'looking in' is enough to understand reality while the latter insists that 'looking out' is necessary.
Therefore I believe it would be reasonable to assume that the 'looking in' the Rationalists believe they are doing is really somehow tapping into their subconscious via the process of Rationalism, but because they cannot be consciously aware that they are tapping into their subconscious, they conflat the source of information as "what I already have".
This then brings us to the topic of Epistemology.
I have been thinking about what Epistemology cannot work against. It can be used against Science and Religion. Someone who thinks epistemology (rather than someone who is a epistemologist) could even use Epistemology against the concepts within itself.
I have decided that the true limitation of Epistemology is the observer's subconscious, since the conscious mind has a tendency to be modified by its subconscious subconsciously. Epistemological thinking is conscious after all.
If this is the case, then I would suggest relying more on one's gut feeling or sixth sense. Considering great successes such as August Kekulé and the structure of benzene, Dmitri Mendeleev and his Periodic Table, and Albert Einstein's thought experiments of light.
Of course, please be adviced that anyone who goes this route should already be in a position of absolute fluidity of position (the means justify the ends) and must be sure that they don't have too many fundamental believes.
In other words, use more gut feeling if you have intellectual flexibility.
I have not read too widely, but I remember coming across a paper while I was still in school. It discussed about the face that we experience in our dreams that we do not know in real life, and proposes that while our conscious mind discards the sight of random people we see in the day, our subconscious mind saves it temporarily and that is how they appear in our dreams.
I have also read about the debate between the ancient Rationalists and Empiricists, that the former argues that 'looking in' is enough to understand reality while the latter insists that 'looking out' is necessary.
Therefore I believe it would be reasonable to assume that the 'looking in' the Rationalists believe they are doing is really somehow tapping into their subconscious via the process of Rationalism, but because they cannot be consciously aware that they are tapping into their subconscious, they conflat the source of information as "what I already have".
This then brings us to the topic of Epistemology.
I have been thinking about what Epistemology cannot work against. It can be used against Science and Religion. Someone who thinks epistemology (rather than someone who is a epistemologist) could even use Epistemology against the concepts within itself.
I have decided that the true limitation of Epistemology is the observer's subconscious, since the conscious mind has a tendency to be modified by its subconscious subconsciously. Epistemological thinking is conscious after all.
If this is the case, then I would suggest relying more on one's gut feeling or sixth sense. Considering great successes such as August Kekulé and the structure of benzene, Dmitri Mendeleev and his Periodic Table, and Albert Einstein's thought experiments of light.
Of course, please be adviced that anyone who goes this route should already be in a position of absolute fluidity of position (the means justify the ends) and must be sure that they don't have too many fundamental believes.
In other words, use more gut feeling if you have intellectual flexibility.