Heresy

[John Carvill]

2009/9/12 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>:
> John Carvill wrote:
>> One thing that absolutely *can* be articulated about LSD is this: if
>> you haven't taken it, then you have no idea what it's like.
>> Consequently, you have no real basis for judging what (or whether)
>> insights can be gained from taking  it.
>
> No. This is false. Humans don't need to have experiential knowledge to
> have an idea of what another human with such knowledge has
> experienced.

With LSD, yes they do. You can't know LSD without first-hand
experience of taking it. That's an axiom.