A persistent metaphor
The Two Minds
Every mind runs both. One generates possibilities, the other tests them. A culture that exiles either one stops learning: the first becomes credulous, the second becomes sterile.
The Dreamer
Generates possibilities
- — Intuition
- — Emotion
- — Imagination
- — Pattern
- — Symbol
- — Creativity
- — Association
- — Experience
The Investigator
Tests possibilities
- — Measurement
- — Logic
- — Evidence
- — Experiment
- — Probability
- — Verification
- — Criticism
- — Replication
When they cooperate
DISCERNMENT
The Dreamer proposes what might be true. The Investigator finds out. Neither is the enemy of truth — only the pretence that one of them is sufficient alone.
ENTER THE TRUTH ENGINEThe rule that governs this site
Never ridicule mythology, intuition, religion, art, altered states or subjective experience. Ask instead the only question that does any work: what exactly does this experience allow us to conclude?