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Simple solution: drop the science schtick for two seconds while discussing consciousness. I think the Hacker News culture betrays an unspoken terror of being wr
by psyc 10y ago
Simple solution: drop the science schtick for two seconds while discussing consciousness. I think the Hacker News culture betrays an unspoken terror of being wrong about anything for any length of time, and that's why it will admit no other tool for thought or investigation, other than its collective idiosyncratic caricature of science.
- joe_the_user 10y agoSimple solution: drop the science schtick for two seconds while discussing consciousness. I was not discussing consciousness per-se, I was discussing the theory and the sort of theory discussed in the article - the claim that a subjective experience needs to be added to the scientific process to explain various supposed problems. I have no objections to exploring subjective experience - believe it or not, I mediate, practice Qigong and Tai Chi and enjoy Eastern philosophies like Taoism. A text like the Tao Te Ching is more applicable to the immediate problems of living than a text book on physics but that doesn't mean subjective intuitions can be uncritically applied to physics. Science is a particular discipline, applicable in a limited but important level of reality, specifically intended to benefit from limiting the use of the subjective messiness of most human reasoning - not that this subjective messiness isn't highly useful elsewhere.
- Dylan16807 10y ago"science" just means checking if you're right or wrong. It's not a specific tool, and you can do science with any tool. What kind of tools would you suggest?