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We need a better science for sharing experiences. Science is great for sharing experiments where we can replicate the conditions in the outside world. But it's
by canadiantim 3y ago
We need a better science for sharing experiences. Science is great for sharing experiments where we can replicate the conditions in the outside world. But it's terrible for sharing experiences because they are harder to share in a replicable way, yet that's where some of the most important insights are.
- nine_k 3y agoExperiences can be hard / impossible to share in principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia Humans do need a better language to describe certain areas of experience though, states of mind and emotions. Poetic language is a good approximation, but it uses various quirks and undocumented properties of the "normal" language to get its point across. It's a poor fit even for philosophy, to say nothing of scientific research.