Post #1546957
2026-03-22 20:15 UTC
Most people aren't Platonists. And yet...
"Capitalism is ruining the world." "I can't do that because of my anxiety."
These things are real, but treating them as *more* real than experience is what I'm calling Latent Platonism.
Our paper on it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-06669-3
@philosophy #philosophy @psychology #psychology
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@vjprema@fosstodon.org 2026-03-22 23:37
@bryankam@writing.exchange @philosophy@a.gup.pe @psychology@a.gup.pe What I try to remember is the Buddhist concept of "five aggregates" and that there is absolutely nothing outside of those if we take the experience as a whole to be what is "real" (including all concepts, fears, emotions, judgements perceptions, phenomena, illusions, simulations etc, literally anything experienced). Everything experienced is real on the same level, thinking something experienced is "more real" is a deluded view that we all often fall into it.
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@lucyweirphd@mastodon.ie 2026-03-26 08:25
@bryankam@writing.exchange @philosophy@a.gup.pe @psychology@a.gup.pe most people are dualists. There’s your problem.