How to know what to believe and why
Socrates was an epistemic nihilist, a fancy way to describe him claiming (repeatedly) to only know for certain that he knew nothing. This is like me insisting during the years of discussion of Randell Mills, which included him in the online conversation, that I was skeptical about his claims and theory. One day, Randell asked me what it was I was skeptical about. I had no reply. I felt rather stupid to have believed that I could just call myself a skeptic and not be responsible for thinking about concluding something with the information I was processing. Was it all fraud? I took that as a very real possibility for a long time, because fraud is a big part of fringe science. I did not realize that understanding what Mills was theorizing was not fringe science. I thought I could never understand it, just as I was resigned to ever understanding the standard model of quantum mechanics, SQM. What he was doing was attempting to help science reco...