RE: How do we know what we know, if we know anything?
February 6, 2014 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2014 at 9:42 pm by Mudhammam.)
(February 6, 2014 at 9:28 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: We already went through this with Descartes and his contemporaries. "Brain in a vat" is the Loony Toon Adventures end of a line with "sometimes I'm mistaken" in the middle, and Strict Empiricism at the other.
Scientific research is based on objective empiricism. Peer review. The only problem becomes "What if all these experts really are mistaken, and we need Keanu Reeves to fight the Computers?"
Right but if someone makes a claim that cannot be subject to scientific empiricism, does that invalidate their claim? Can or should we appreciate these human experiences that don't correlate to consensus reality?
