Scientific method proves order cannot exist w/o intelligence

[Eilonnwy]

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My view is that there is such a thing as truth, otherwise the operation of the universe would be impossible. Something, at some time, has to "be", has to "happen". My contention is that we are unable to know these truths, only make educated deductions in hopes of finding a possible explanation that fits.

The observable is hardly truth, given that there are no methods of confirming whether what we observe is real. For instance, imagine you see a cat in the middle of a room. You can say "I observe a cat". A million friends of yours can come in and say "I observe a cat too". You can point a machine at the cat that outputs "DATA OBSERVED. SUBJECT: CAT", yet at no point can you know for certain that everyone who sees the cat isn't just hallucinating, or that the cat is some illusion or anomaly, or that the machine used isn't being faulty and confirming something which appears to be there but actually isn't.

Observation sucks

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And yet, at the same time, operating under the idea that we live in a Matrix is fundamentally useless in our day to day lives, so we must do our best with what we have. Therefore if all these other people and other evidence points to a cat in the room, we are justified in believing it to be so until evidence proves otherwise.