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diff --git a/essays/walking_through_walls.tex b/essays/walking_through_walls.tex index 701d5c3..ba1e396 100644 --- a/essays/walking_through_walls.tex +++ b/essays/walking_through_walls.tex @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The exhortation continues to the effect that if I did utter blasphemy I really w In general, the so-called evidence doesn't work. There is a swindle somewhere in the evidence that is supposed to make me accept the fearful belief. Upon close scrutiny, each bit of evidence misses the target. Yet the whole conglomeration of \enquote{evidence} somehow overwhelmed medieval people. They had to believe something that I do not believe. I can get away with something that they could not get away with. -It is not that I stand up in a society of the faithful and suddenly blaspheme. It is rather that the whole medieval cognitive orientation had been completely reoriented by the time it was transmitted to me. Or in other words, the medieval cognitive orientation was restructured throughout during the modern era. In the process, the compelling conglomeration of evidence was disintegrated. Isolated from their niches in the old orientation, the bits of evidence no longer worked. Each bit missed the target. I do not have a head-on confrontation with the medieval impossibility of blaspheming. I slip by the impossibility, where they could not, because I structure the entire situation, and the evidence, differently. +\slop{It is not that I stand up in a society of the faithful and suddenly blaspheme. It is rather that the whole medieval cognitive orientation had been completely reoriented by the time it was transmitted to me. Or in other words, the medieval cognitive orientation was restructured throughout during the modern era. In the process, the compelling conglomeration of evidence was disintegrated. Isolated from their niches in the old orientation, the bits of evidence no longer worked. Each bit missed the target. I do not have a head-on confrontation with the medieval impossibility of blaspheming. I slip by the impossibility, where they could not, because I structure the entire situation, and the evidence, differently.} The analysis just presented, combined with analyses of beliefs which I have made elsewhere, assures me that the belief that \enquote{if I try to walk through the wall I will fail and will bruise myself} is also discardable. I am sure that I can walk through walls just as successfully as I can blaspheme. But to do so will not be trivial. As I have shown, escaping the power of a fearful belief is not a matter of head-on confrontation, but of restructuring the entire situation, of restructuring evidence, so that the conglomeration of evidence is disintegrated into isolated bits which are separately powerless. Only then can one slip by the impossibility. I cannot exercise my freedom to walk through walls until the whole cognitive orientation of the modern era is restructured throughout. |