RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 7, 2016 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2016 at 10:05 pm by bennyboy.)
(October 7, 2016 at 6:16 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Your "flexible approach" is the very definition of special pleading. Works for bridges, not for brains. QM won't tell you anything that isn't necessarrily materialistic. Unfortunately, QM has been turned into the Fountain of Woo.
That's really not a very good definition of special pleading. There's nothing wrong with using a system of thought that works given a particular context, and abandoning in contexts for which it doesn't work. Given that you can't sensibly claim knowledge of ultimate truth, then you can stick with what is true in the context in which you're trying to operate.
As for QM, if by "necessarily materialistic," you mean "exists but has no volume, can be either a particle or a wave, can go back in time and correct its state to match what an observer did," then okay, but that's a pretty strained definition.
As for fountain of woo-- it seems to me anything you can't hit with your club is woo.
