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How would you distinguish cognitive limitations from having insufficient data?

• goatlover 4y ago
  When the issue is primarily conceptual and is unlikely to be settled by more data. That's the argument made for the hard problem of consciousness. It's not about evidence, since the nature of evidence is objective and abstract, while consciousness is subjective and concrete. Similarly with metaphysical matters, evidence isn't going to tell us whether the nature of reality or causation is X, because the evidence is empirically-based. Which won't tell you whether Kant, Hume, Berkeley or Tegmark is right. Maybe reality is all mathematical, mental, contingent, or unknowable, but how would evidence decide the matter?