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The history of philosophy shows that what sounds logical tells us little about how the world physically works. There's nothing logical about time dilation or
by staticman2 5y ago
The history of philosophy shows that what sounds logical tells us little about how the world physically works. There's nothing logical about time dilation or quantum physics.
I mean, if the community around Astro Codex said upfront "We don't care about empiricism, we make things up based on what sounds logical to us" I would at least give them points for honesty.
The guy who runs Astro Codex blog claims he is an empiricist.
- holbrad 5y agoIt's nuanced. We are evolved creatures, with certain intuitions about things. You can point to domains about where it fails completely. (For understandable reasons) But that doesn't mean intuition is useless, in fact I'd say it's rather underused for how valuable it actually is. Parachutes and RCT's come to mind. Being empirical is really hard and rather un-natural for humans. It's a best effort thing. Current institution don't help as much as I'd like, it still takes many decades for information to propagate (And even longer for corrections where the consensus was wrong)