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> If I autopsy a dead body, am I going to find any evidence of those things in there? Sure, they're a few centimeters to the right of the evidence of conscious
by FreakLegion 4y ago
> If I autopsy a dead body, am I going to find any evidence of those things in there?
Sure, they're a few centimeters to the right of the evidence of consciousness, just below the evidence of the Pythagorean theorem.
This sounds glib but isn't. What counts as 'evidence' and how much of it is needed for 'proof' are themselves hotly debated. Empiricism is no more a given than morality.
- rayiner 4y ago> Empiricism is no more a given than morality. And now you’re in woo land. Once you leave the land of empiricism you might as well be arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
- FreakLegion 4y agoIn woo land with my homies Poincaré, Gödel, etc. It's almost like the bedrock of knowledge is a deep philosophical question that every discipline strikes sooner or later, once they start digging. There really should be a word for it.