If a placebo works, why destroy its active ingredient by pointing out it’s a “placebo”?

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These days nobody wants to talk about philosophy without justifying it with neuroscience.

I am an advocate of looking for all possible correlations in the field of experience, but some minds seem compelled to beg the brain for legitimacy, and to win the brain’s endorsement of every quality mind appears to possess — as if a thorough neuroscientific grounding somehow protects a mind from delusion. This strikes me as delusional.

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Physics is the pill moderns administer and take to compel agreement.

And yes, nerds, it is blue.