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Mikhail_Edoshintoday at 10:46 AM1 replyview on HN

William James suggested a criterion to tell these two apart.


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vintermanntoday at 12:45 PM

So did Philip K. Dick, one enthusiastically embraced by a generation of skeptics: "Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Which was really hilarious, because for PKD, the point was that he couldn't discount his experiences. He couldn't make them go away even though he understood perfectly well that he might simply be crazy.