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Trying to figure out where electricity comes from by changing the color of light bulbs.
by amalag 12y ago
Trying to figure out where electricity comes from by changing the color of light bulbs.
- rgrieselhuber 12y agoYeah, fuck science man.
- randallsquared 12y agoDo you have some testable evidence that there's something outside the room (in your analogy)?
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- amalag 12y agoWhere is your testable evidence that you are not actually dreaming right now? Can you "prove" it? The point is that certain things are logically axiomatic, I could give you many more examples. So the logical axiom that we exist is used in modern society. To suggest that is is untrue and that science cannot proceed while accepting the existence of the self will only backfire and scientific endeavors in that direction will prove increasingly futile.
- goblin89 12y ago> Where is your testable evidence that you are not actually dreaming right now? Can you "prove" it? Isn't science about doing one thing, but doing it well? I thought if it can't be tested and disproved (as the dream possibility), then it's ‘out of scope’. > the logical axiom that we exist is used in modern society. By the above, this axiom would not in any way involve science—another framework would've to deal with it. (IANAS, though.)
- amalag 12y agoSo is the existence of free will in the scope of science? Are you suggesting that science cannot help us determine if reality actually exists but it can tell us if free will exists? EDIT: I think it cannot for the simple reason that the so called individual is trying to figure out if there is scientific evidence of his own existence.
- goblin89 12y agoI think I see your point. No, whether free will exists does not seem like a proper question that science could ask (again, IANAS though).