I'm an Atheist Skeptic

[The Grand Nudger]

Oh FFS, string theory -is- falsifiable, the more damning criticisms of it have everything to do with the ways in which it may be falsified. Speaking of falsification, the proposition which you argued around but not against was that the crushing majority of scientists do not support a model which requires cognition. All that would be required for you to falsify this would be to present an adequate number of scientists who do (and this would entail presenting that model that requires cognition as well). Of course, what any person agrees with isn't necessarily representative of what may be called scientific, and so this model with cognition as a requirement would either stand or fall on it's own merits, and not the consensus of those that propose (or oppose) it. Laying this aside, the top comologists of the world may swing many ways, but do they swing the way of cognition Daniel? Is there any observational or experimental evidence that establishes cognition as a requirement, has the notion of cognition as requirement made any successful predictions? If the answer to these questions is no (and it is) then how surprising would it be if the majority of scientists did not support it? Not very, in my estimation.