RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 26, 2018 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2018 at 9:50 am by bennyboy.)
(March 26, 2018 at 6:27 am)Khemikal Wrote: If this doesn't satisfy us, then we haven't observed electricity, or temperature, or any other x in-kind either...and we find ourselves in the conceptual black hole all over again.
Temperature isn't really a thing or a property of a thing except at the macro level, so let me skip that. Electricity, though. . . that is something very interesting indeed. We can catalogue massive amounts of data around and near it. But the thing itself-- that is more elusive than ever before.
It is my belief that science, good hard science, has reached a point where it's much better at telling us what reality ISN'T than what it IS, n'est-ce pas? I can say that to a very large degree my ideas about mind and the Universe are closely connected to my first inquiries into QM maybe 30 or so years ago, and that newer science seems to be taking us farther and farther into a wilderness of uncertainty.
