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Kelli Napp's avatar

Brilliant article. Interesting read!

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Bo Rydeng's avatar

As someone much more sympathetic to traditional skepticism than you it doesn't seem terribly unlikely that a wolf might have run or walked on two legs for a little bit, but also it doesn't seem that much rides on the question. Either a wolf behaved in a way that unusual but not inconceivable or you senses or memory misfired in a way that unusual but not inconceivable. Both are relatively mundane.

You do mention destigmatizing experiences like that, which I think would be great but you seem to be implicitly assuming that destigmatizing such experiences means validating them as veridical. IMO it could also take the form of publishing the fact that "seeing things that aren't there" isn't really the same as being crazy. Everybody sees things that aren't there, it’s only abnormal under extreme circumstances.

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