(January 8, 2015 at 1:55 pm)robvalue Wrote: If you defined love scientifically you could test it I think. Emotions can be linked to brain configurations.Even if you could do that, is it unreasonable to believe that she loves me based on her behavior? Must I be agnostic about it unless I have a recent brain scan in hand?
Quote:You're right, I have understated my challenge. Any spiritual claims win too. Ghosts, sprirituality, chi, "energy", and so on, all bollocks in my opinion. So step upI already gave one example with my father's passing. It doesn't bother me that it's not falsifiable, and it doesn't bother me that you reject it.
Quote:It's important to convince others, because otherwise all you have are a bunch of people with unsupported opinions and no idea what is true or not. We work towards consensus to find out what is real.I think god or some spiritual force woke me up when my father died. Other people have similar accounts. I believe some of them and reject some of them. You presumably reject all of them. We have a bunch of people with unsupported opinions and no idea what is true or not. It's not a big deal.
Quote:I'm never trying to de convert anyone. Only to promote critical thinking.Same here.