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Thank you. Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.

I'm your host, Julia Galef, and my guest today is Eric Schwitzgable.

Eric is a philosopher at the University of California Riverside. He's the author of several books,

and also writes the excellent blog, The Splintered Mind. Eric, welcome back to the show.

Thanks for having me again, Julia.

Yeah, Eric was on the show, I guess, about a year ago now, talking about crazyism.

You are, I hope, still as crazy as ever.

Yeah, maybe even getting crazier.

I mean, I've been reading your blog, so the answer I know is yes.

I wanted to have you back in the show because I have this kind of cluster of related

burning questions for you that have accumulated in the last year of reading your stuff

that are kind of loosely related on themes of like the right way to think about weird

or counterintuitive ideas and whether we can know our own minds and some things like that.

So we have a lot to talk about.

Why don't we work backwards by starting with a blog post you wrote just recently that really caught my attention?

It was called Truth, Dare, and Wonder.

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