(May 16, 2013 at 1:55 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The scientific method intentionally excludes subjective experience and intentionallity.
No, it doesn't. It just hasn't accounted for them yet.
What it does exclude is a hypothesis with no evidence to support it.
(May 16, 2013 at 1:55 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: It's pretty easy to defend your skepticism if you don't consider/take for granted half the phenomena of reality.
Actually, it's amazingly easy to defend your skepticism when someone fails to put forth any positive evidence for their hypothesis.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell