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Religious Traditions as Curve Fits to Underlying Reality

Different spiritual and transcendental traditions are like competing curve fits to an underlying objective reality, analogous to how Newtonian physics, Einsteinian physics, and successive theories are progressively better curve fits to how the natural world works; we cannot know which tradition is more right, but each is a different language struggling to apprehend the same Platonic shadows.

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Speaker

Arthur Brooks

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Source

291 - Where Is HappinessMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:00:59 AM

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