I see we're discussing conceptual gerrymandering today

this is generally seen as suboptimal as it greebles your concepts, making them more complex

but innately, we believe Truth to be Simple & Pure

so we greeble them until we find a d
simplification & can do a Big Degreeble
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RT @pee_zombie
the point of philosophy is to degreeble your mind
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this is a natural cycle; we start off with way-too-simple conceptions of reality, iteratively greeble them to capture nuances we discover in our search for truth, and then, ideally, discover underlying symmetries and degreeble them to recover that beatific state of head empty

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