Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• 14 days ago

I'm not gonna sugar coat it: if you're serious about understanding reality deeply (and I mean deeply), some people will think you're crazy. That you've lost the plot. That you're lost in outer space. That you've broken your access to consensus reality. Etc. But listen to a String Theorist speak. The average person doesn't understand 1% of what they say, and *project* their own misconceptions, half baked ideas, prejudices, and unexamined assumptions onto the things the String Theorist is saying. Yes the String Theorist makes sense. The framework is internally consistent. But mental data structures to communicate it are missing from the cultural memetic soup. Within the minimal set of data structures to span the actual theory, you don't even see the theory. You see your own projections! Same. Same. Same. With consciousness and reality. If you're serious about understanding reality you can indeed have peers. Epistemic, academic, intellectual peers. But can you do it without many people thinking you've lost your marbles? Not a chance.