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by keymone 2510 days ago
> Let that person demonstrate it if he's so claiming

that's the point - with ridiculous claims like levitation there's simple way to verify them. with psychological claims of enlightenment - there's no way to verify them. you basically took people on their word and are trying to achieve the same, but how can you know they didn't fool you and you're not fooling yourself? how can you know your brain isn't creating an illusion of enlightenment just so you stop depriving it of dopamine?

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It's possible to give not one but multiple proofs to a genuanly curious mind; however, it's impossible to prove anything otherwise to a mind which has already made up an opinion.