That's what I keep asking you - I'm not a mind reader. It's very clear that there is some thing of value to you that you feel is harmed by exclusion from scientific explanations, but also by inclusion with scientific explanations. It seems like it's experience, or something about our experience. You talk about needing a bridge, for example, between how you experience the world and how it is. The compartmentalization of truth as you see it that you make.
Fundamentally, I think we approach these things a different way. I see our experience and the contents of that experience as complimentary rather than competing truth claims with respect to reality - not claims which need to be segregated for some seeming contradiction ala empty space/solid table. I suppose, to me, the contents of experience are the bridge between the real world and the perceived world. I don't actually have a ph kit in my mouth, but the sensation of taste can help me determine some rough parameters. I don't actually come equipped with deep well probes but the experience of soft ground under foot betrays something about that ground (as another seemingly solid thing). My eyes aren't a spectrometer (pretty damn close, though!) but they do have a way to show me issues in plant tissue. Experience, at least it seems to me, is the way we collate all this raw data into a compelling and useful representation of a high stakes world.
Fundamentally, I think we approach these things a different way. I see our experience and the contents of that experience as complimentary rather than competing truth claims with respect to reality - not claims which need to be segregated for some seeming contradiction ala empty space/solid table. I suppose, to me, the contents of experience are the bridge between the real world and the perceived world. I don't actually have a ph kit in my mouth, but the sensation of taste can help me determine some rough parameters. I don't actually come equipped with deep well probes but the experience of soft ground under foot betrays something about that ground (as another seemingly solid thing). My eyes aren't a spectrometer (pretty damn close, though!) but they do have a way to show me issues in plant tissue. Experience, at least it seems to me, is the way we collate all this raw data into a compelling and useful representation of a high stakes world.
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