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There is literally no known phenomena which you couldn't explain away with some as yet undiscovered materialist phenomena. Many people (including me) believe t
by RivieraKid 13y ago
There is literally no known phenomena which you couldn't explain away with some as yet undiscovered materialist phenomena.
Many people (including me) believe that consciousness can't be explained with physics.
- md224 13y agoDo you believe it could be explained eventually by future discoveries utilizing the scientific method? This is, by the way, the major weakness with Physicalism as an ontology; the scientific method is a great methodology, but it would be foolish to say "the only things that exist are those described by science" since science is, by its very nature, incomplete and continually evolving. One could say, of course, that the only things that exist are those described by some future perfect physics, but this claim is kind of circular/meaningless. This issue is known as Hempel's dilemma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempel's_dilemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempel's_dilemma
- RivieraKid 13y agoPhysics can't even describe consciousness, let alone explain it. It's impossible to describe consciousness without refering to subjective experience.
- wslh 13y agoI am in the same boat, although I don't know if in the future someone can explain consciousness in a better way.
- RivieraKid 13y agoDownvoter: I see you disagree - how would you define consciousness without refering to subjectve experience?
- Alex3917 13y ago"Many people (including me) believe that consciousness can't be explained with physics." Yeah, I was trying to make the point that materialism isn't falsifiable, though this may not have been clear.
- RivieraKid 13y agoSorry, I missed that :)