The Brain=Mind Fallacy

[Angrboda]

You know, Brian, for someone who claims that eschewing the word philosophy leads to less dogmatic thinking, your views on philosophy and the use of the word are incredibly dogmatic. I can only conclude from this that either you are wrong (by reductio ad absurdum), or you don't practice what you preach.

No I am hardly dogmatic.

Everyone has claims, even me. An if shit were shinola I would be an investor.

But when it comes to evidence the bad approach is to assume it is true. The better approach is to test. I dream as much as the next person. But I don't call my claims anything but ideas until they have had their ass kicked and confirmed.

Okay, then describe to me the test that was used to confirm the idea that falsifiability is a good quality for a scientific theorem to have. What test, experiment or observation would lead us to conclude that falsifiability is not a good or useful characteristic for a theory? How has "falsifiability" been "confirmed" -- and note that you are retreating from the standard of falsifiability to the weaker, more problematic standard of verification in this case; why?

I'll cut to the chase if you like. Your "ideas" have already been tried, examined, and found wanting well over a half century ago. On that basis, are you willing to give up "the idea" that ideas have to be scientifically and empirically confirmed in order for them to be valid? Or is this an idea you are not willing to give up if challenged?