Every bird thinks its nest is the best.

A Congolese proverb.

Welcome. In this episode, we're going to be talking about self-bias.

This is an exciting topic that I've been wanting to talk about for years now in some great length

because this is a core problem of epistemology and

epistemology remember don't get confused by this word all it means is the

theory of human knowledge so how do we know anything as human beings?

Well, self-bias turns out to play a very important role.

So what is self-bias?

It's a term that I coined when I was in my teenage years. When I first started doing philosophy. I was about

18 years old in high school and in early college and I started reading various

philosophies, tried to figure out life. You know I didn't have a particular philosophy that I

subscribed to because I didn't know which philosophy was true. I had an open mind and

so what I did I was just reading various kinds of

philosophical literature but what I noticed is a very peculiar phenomenon in philosophy

maybe you've noticed as, is that every philosophical school presents arguments in favor of its own position

and against other positions which are not its own.

So atheists will present arguments for why there is no God.

Christians will present arguments for why there is a God and why Christ is the one true prophet.

Muslims will present arguments for why Islam is the one true faith and that Allah is the highest god and that Muhammad is the greatest prophet.

Scientists will present arguments for science and against witchcraft and against voodoo and against mysticism and other forms of knowing.

Rationalists will present rational arguments

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