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I didn't downvote, but if you ask me I'd say others did it mainly because grandparent brought philosophy into scientific discussion. (And with reasoning or phra
by goblin89 12y ago
I didn't downvote, but if you ask me I'd say others did it mainly because grandparent brought philosophy into scientific discussion. (And with reasoning or phrasing issues at that: “we can't do something even if we can”, for example, contradicts itself.)
- halfcat 12y agoIronic that science is a subset of philosophy.
- goblin89 12y agoThat's precisely why, IMHO, if you aren't prepared to make a complete well-thought-through argument, then you should think twice before venturing into a philosophical discussion. On the other hand, due to the nature of HN, one has to choose between either spending a few days researching the comment and posting it with a very slim chance of being read or answered, or blurting out something not very polished. In this case it's the latter. (How you define “objective”? “reality”? A rough example of how could the answer to the question “what reality is” roughly look like? Any links to existing research—people certainly attempted to ask a question of this nature before?) The resulting discussion may be worth it, though.