RE: The ways to know reality?
August 26, 2012 at 1:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2012 at 1:19 pm by Napoléon.)
(August 26, 2012 at 7:04 am)apophenia Wrote: If anybody needs me, I'll be bleeding out.
I wouldn't hold your breath dear
(August 26, 2012 at 6:55 am)Rayaan Wrote: But, in the end, we still do not know if science is the only means of understanding reality. You may think it is, but that doesn't necessarily make it true.
Oh fucking hell.
Sure, there might be other ways of interpreting the universe to discern fact from fiction, other than by using science, but up until now, every other method has failed.
If you are privy to some other form of discerning "what really is" and can demonstrate it to be true and show that it works, please, feel free to let the rest of the world know about it.
Quote: For example, there may exist other dimensions and/or regions of space in the universe in which the laws of physics become totally obsolete and everything that happens there is completely unpredictable and unexplainable by science. If that was the case, which is not impossible, then this would invalidate the idea that science is the only means of understanding reality.
Okay, so you make up one hypothetical scenario, and lead on to an assertion about it (from nothing at all), and then draw a wild conclusion.
Oh how do I argue with this logic?
Quote:Reality is reality, but our beliefs about it and our method of understanding it varies from person to person. Hence, in my opinion, understanding reality is always a subjective process, even for scientists.
I call bullshit. Truth is not subjective. Conduct a test to see the mass of a teacup, and the results don't change depending on who else is in the room.
Quote: We don't even know whose understanding of reality is the right one because, again, it is subjective.
Bullshit bullshit bullshit.