That an experience was necessarily lived does not imply that "the neglect of experience" has only one meaning. Again, if I hire you without looking at...
And there is a distinction between going through a process and referring to a process, between experiencing a feeling and talking about a feeling. In ...
I don't see the article claiming that materialism is a necessary part of engaging in science. Note the focus on how we view science, rather than on sc...
There is experience in the sense having knowledge or skill about some subject. "Lived experience" puts the focus on the state of experiencing. I never...
I thought it was relevant because we are on a philosophy forum, and some of the reactions stem from people who know a lot about philosophy but don't s...
If elephants are made solely of particles, and the motion of these particles is completely determined by fundamental laws of physics, then in principl...
Exactly. And this is also the case with the scientifically illiterate who are otherwise well-versed in philosophy, they can't philosophize well about ...
"everything is made of particles" is not an observation, it is a belief. Sure we can't use the laws of physics to derive how elephants behave in group...
Physicists and many scientists do. Can be reduced to particles in the sense that "how mammals communicate" or "what the monetary policy ought to be" w...
Attempt to solve the problem? By for instance changing the way physics is taught in schools so that kids don't leave it believing they are nothing mor...
No need to think, you can read what David Bohm said. Turns out he agrees with "such tripe". http://dbohm.com/david-bohm-science-spirituality-world-cri...
That impression doesn't stem from observing their behavior, it stems from the fact that fundamental physics claim to describe the fundamental constitu...
That's the thing, it would be so different that you can't imagine what that would be like while reasoning within the framework of a mind-independent w...
Many people see psychiatric labels as stigmatizing, if he doesn't, great. However what I said about it could be helpful to him, in case he finds himse...
He has felt understood and supported by me, and misunderstood by you. You're not focusing on what he says. Besides, he has explicitly said that he doe...
You seem to believe that professionals possess holy knowledge that only them can impart, and us plebeians cannot possibly analyze their thought proces...
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Etymologically infrared means below red, that is of frequency below that of red. I have never seen infraorange bei...
I realize I never replied to you, sorry about that. I agree that we have similar points of view, this is probably due to the fact that I have been thr...
The concept of space-time is not necessary to make the same observable predictions that Einstein's relativity does, it is a concept that was introduce...
Many people are convinced they hold Truth, yet their truths contradict one another, but they believe they hold the real Truth and that the other side ...
Why? The idea that we are collectively responsible for the way the world is? That a human being can do both good and terrible things? That there is no...
Also I would like to say that I do hope there is some Truth, not in the sense that there is a Truth that exists independently of us, but in the sense ...
You can believe what you want to believe, but still from my point of view I don't see evidence of that Truth. It is true to you that there is Truth, w...
No, because there is my personal truth, and I act on it. But I don't pretend that it is objective, that it is embedded in an universe that exists inde...
I think we have access to something, but that something is not the same depending on the person. I think each of us has their own reality, and in some...
Indeed I think "not having access to Truth" in itself does not affect the OP argument, but the OP argument rests on the premise that "there are facts"...
But how can you ever know that it is True that the cat is on the mat? What if what you think is a cat is not a cat but a fox that looks like a cat? Wh...
Logic is a man-made tool that applies to propositions of a language. If you had no one to communicate with, if you didn't use language, then you would...
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make though, it feels like we're going off on a tangent and away from the point of this thread. The point is...
That's not the case though, physics is considered a hard science, and yet what I said applies there too, physicists carry activities in their work tha...
I would say it is worse than that, see the examples I gave with using "verifiability" or "falsifiability" as a criterion. It is not that they exclude ...
The issue is there is no such objective method that defines science. If you define scientific activities as those that follow some objective method (t...
I don't see how it would be possible, although I would have a hard time proving it is impossible, but up to now all attempts have failed, so the way t...
Indeed. So if it is subjective to call one set of activities "science" and not some other one, how could we arrive at the idea that the activities cal...
I gave the example of God but what I said applies to any idea/theory/practice that is labeled as unscientific, or that is abandoned/rejected/ignored b...
If science was an objective enterprise, in the sense that a theory is accepted because it matches objective observations and not because it suits the ...
You don't understand their motivations. You fail to see that the science that is taught is not culturally neutral, it is imbued with a set of beliefs ...
Consider that the same set of observations can be explained in various ways, according to various world views. A lack of oppression would be allowing ...
Or, you know, spiritual beliefs that saw man as more than a heap of atoms, that saw nature as more than a resource to exploit, that saw love as more t...
There is the saying that if you can't explain it simply then you don't understand it well enough. In that complexity lie a bunch of implicit assumptio...
But when scientists say that we observe such or such thing because subatomic particles behave in a specific way, or that the light of galaxies is reds...
There are many examples of people who have had a positive impact on a non-local scale for instance. Why do you believe you have no free choice? If you...
What I see is that you have beliefs that are in conflict with what you want, but if you critically analyzed these beliefs you would realize that they ...
What made you stop believing this? How did you want to make your life better? How would the world need to be for you to be happy? If this is all that ...
It depends on what caused it. Can you say more about how you went from having ambitions and direction to feeling that everything is meaningless? When ...
The thing is that we could have the same predictive ability and technology with very different language-games. It is a matter of convention whether we...
That is not an appeal to authority, I could have said I understand what scientists do better than you do, but then you would have called me pretentiou...
Or rather he understood what scientists do much better than you do. Read his book if you ever find the time, and you might get something important out...
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