(May 28, 2022 at 9:31 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There is no life force. It is, in fact, a chemical process. Possibility is a description of what can happen. Not a force. This is the danger in sloppy use of terms.
Do you think that any of those claims are facts, or knowable…though? Disregard that we disagree. Do you think that there’s a way to assess either claim or both, and do you think either one might be an accurate description of a state of affairs?
Would there be anything weird about that, if there were?
I'm not sure we are using the terms sloppily here, especially if we are able to speak effectively about such claims. Maybe what you are alluding to is that any statement that is clearly explicated can have no ambiguity. That almost sounds like you are saying that absolute truths exist...or as you say, "facts".
I think that it is certainly possible (no pun intended) to know whether or not these claims are true. But I do not know if we as a civilization are capable of discovering such facts in the far future. It could be something that is too complicated for us to ever discover. I would suppose though that a very advanced species or intelligence of some sort would easily have access to this knowledge or information.
I think most of life is "weird", especially if you take God out of the equation.