I wonder if others find the notion of “magical reality fluid” a useful moniker for “I have no clear idea of what’s going on here, but something does, so I cannot avoid thinking about it”. I confess it does nothing for me.
Some people do (I have already received multiple comments to this effect). Mileage possibly varies.
Signalling sophistication and confidence when there is no object level reason for such confidence is one of the more destructive of human social incentives. I heartily endorse measures to prevent this. Seeing that someone is willing to admit uncertainty at the expense of their dignity increases the confidence I can have that their other expressions of confidence are more than social bullshit.
I would of course encourage you to stop using “magical reality fluid” as soon as possible. That is, after someone figures the philosophy (or epistemology or physics) out with something remotely approaching rigour.
Much as I love the idea of this and would like it to work for me, unfortunately as far as I can tell my brain simply treats “magical reality fluid” the same way as it would something bland like “degree of reality”.
Though come to think of it, I’m not actually sure whether or not I’ve really been saying the magical part to myself all this time. I’ll try to make sure I don’t leave it out in the future, and see whether it makes a difference.
I wouldn’t if it was the first time I read that phrase, but since I read EY’s explanation of what he means by it I have had no trouble in remembering that. Sure, a long phrase full of hyphens starting with “whatever-the-hell-it-is-that-” would be clearer, but it would also be more of a PITA to type, so I can see why EY wouldn’t use it.
I wonder if others find the notion of “magical reality fluid” a useful moniker for “I have no clear idea of what’s going on here, but something does, so I cannot avoid thinking about it”. I confess it does nothing for me.
Some people do (I have already received multiple comments to this effect). Mileage possibly varies.
Signalling sophistication and confidence when there is no object level reason for such confidence is one of the more destructive of human social incentives. I heartily endorse measures to prevent this. Seeing that someone is willing to admit uncertainty at the expense of their dignity increases the confidence I can have that their other expressions of confidence are more than social bullshit.
I would of course encourage you to stop using “magical reality fluid” as soon as possible. That is, after someone figures the philosophy (or epistemology or physics) out with something remotely approaching rigour.
Much as I love the idea of this and would like it to work for me, unfortunately as far as I can tell my brain simply treats “magical reality fluid” the same way as it would something bland like “degree of reality”.
Though come to think of it, I’m not actually sure whether or not I’ve really been saying the magical part to myself all this time. I’ll try to make sure I don’t leave it out in the future, and see whether it makes a difference.
FWIW, it does a fine job for me of conveying “I don’t quite know what I’m talking about here.”
Hypothesis: Whether or not a readers finds that useful correlates with whether or not they’ve read this.
I wouldn’t if it was the first time I read that phrase, but since I read EY’s explanation of what he means by it I have had no trouble in remembering that. Sure, a long phrase full of hyphens starting with “whatever-the-hell-it-is-that-” would be clearer, but it would also be more of a PITA to type, so I can see why EY wouldn’t use it.