The Blindness Of Scientism

By Leo Gura - August 25, 2025

This guy devoted his life — thousands of hours — trying to answer the question of What is consciousness? He compiled a list of 325 different theories of consciousness. He makes an air of being scientific, rigorous, and objective about it. But in the end all his scientific logic failed him, as you can see here.

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That’s the stupid logic of scientism.

Smart people cling to science to avoid self-deception but this ironically makes them self-deceived and they have no awareness of this simple trap.

Yes, psychedelics are necessary to understand Consciousness. You cannot understand psychedelics by reasoning about them from your armchair. The one thing this guy needed to do to understand Consciousness, he did not do. The ego-mind is brilliant at making a show of understanding Consciousness without doing what is actually necessary to understand it. Studying and rigorously cataloguing 325 theories of consciousness sounds like it’s a good idea, but it isn’t. It’s a distraction from the real work. 325 theories just ends up drowning out the Truth in endless human noise, but it looks impressive to a scientific audience. If you wish to understand Consciousness you have to be careful to do the stuff that actually matters and avoid all the stuff that doesn’t.

One dose of 5-MeO-DMT is worth more than studying 325 theories of consciousness for 10 years. And you could easily demonstrate that to yourself by doing it. That’s real science.

Clinging to science, logic, and objectivity will not save you. That’s the key epistemic insight.

One of the things that annoys me the most is when people act scientifically rigorous but end up as clueless as if they has studied nothing at all. This is the real thing to be worried about.

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