Have you ever had a religious or supernatural experience?

[John Dule]

I have always been highly suspicious of people who make arguments from “common sense”

This is a good place to leave this conversation. I have nothing to add.

[John Dule]

I have always been highly suspicious of people who make arguments from “common sense”

This is a good place to leave this conversation. I have nothing to add.

You’re not actually suggesting that arguments from a gut feeling are better than arguments from empiricism, rationalism, and emotionalism, are you?

"Gut feeling" is not the same as common sense.

[John Dule]

As far as common sense goes, it is a completely anti-science way of going around the world. In the most quantifiable intellectual field - chess - a grandmaster has the same odds of winning against an amateur adult who’s been playing ten years as against a five year old child. For us to pretend that common sense is a good metric in philosophy, metaphysics, physics, chemistry, biology, or economics is to be wrong. We have to deal with the literature as we can understand it and not at some random level we wish it were at. Everything in all of these fields we know runs deeply against “common sense,” and analytic philosophy still refuses, by and large, to admit that. Materialistic philosophers cling to an old way of thinking that physics disproved a hundred years ago and neurology forty years ago. They were wrong and remain wrong.

Perhaps you have a different definition of common sense than I do.