reason vs faith vs reality

[Whateverist]

Whateverist,
if my line of thinking is too abstract for your interests, I have another more concrete question which I find equally intriguing. You say that when your find a larger, more inclusive, better formed explanatory structure the larger "fish" eats the smaller and less developed one. You inhabit your fish which grow better and roomier for you as they are consumed by larger reality structures.

My question is this. In your metaphore, do the useful, nuourishing elements of the devoured world / reality / conceptual structure become broken down and re-absorbed, refashioned, re incorporated into the new one? In other words, do you experience this process in a similar fashion to digestion?

I am intrigued because as I mentioned I experience myself as the fish who wanders between my mental habitats. I keep the parts of each that work for me and kick the rest out. But obviously I find large parts of each that work for me.

I had some trouble wrapping my head around what you said in your previous post. To answer this question I would start by saying it was just an observation I had early on, that getting right is much more important than being right.

That said, I don't know how thoroughly each larger fish maintains what was best about the smaller ones. Frankly I think sometimes you just lose things when you go from one model to the next. For instance, having "God" as an inner sounding board probably has no direct correlate. Your greater self, unconscious and conscious mind included, gives a more inclusive view than the conscious mind alone can access. But that is far from omniscient and I sure don't think it is infallible. "Prayer", insofar as it is a focused opening to received wisdom, can probably be accounted for as a communion with the unconscious mind/greater self. But there is enough loss to account for some regret. But the upside is you are moving toward maturity/truth/clarity. So good enough.

That's a start. But today we're doing our postponed taxes. (Major yuck!)