(January 16, 2019 at 12:49 am)bennyboy Wrote:(January 15, 2019 at 11:10 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: At least that's my understanding, as over-simplified as it may be. You, on the other hand, seem to be playing dumb on these issues. I have a hard time understanding your respect for science, if you question so many of its observations.
It's because I'm very aware of the relationship between context and truths which I think must ALWAYS either explicitly or implicitly be held in relation to some context.
Psychology and psychogony are conflated in science, since science cannot (by definition I think) say much about brute facts. But when conflation is treated as equation ("We know a lot about how the brain affects experience" --> "We understand what mind is and why it exists. . . the brain!"), then this is in my opinion an overly impoverished philosophical position.
I prefer to think of science as conservative, in that it doesn't wander far from what is warranted from observations. So I guess we will remain at odds on certain issues.
