RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 17, 2022 at 11:54 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2022 at 11:59 pm by vulcanlogician.)
@Angrboda
I mean, you can't falsify a correlation. But from a correlation, you can develop a hypothesis: "ice cream trucks cause drownings." Then you arrange an experiment. Create a dozen or so "Truman Show" neighborhoods in which all factors are the same, except some neighborhoods have more ice cream trucks. Then you see which neighborhoods have more drownings. Rinse and repeat.
It might not be practical, but it (in principle) is a way science could detect the strength of the correlation.
You could go deeper than these theories attempt. Neither fully explains the ontology of consciousness. But, if we were to discover that one or both of the theories is false, we'd be one step closer to understanding that ontology, whatever it is.
I mean, you can't falsify a correlation. But from a correlation, you can develop a hypothesis: "ice cream trucks cause drownings." Then you arrange an experiment. Create a dozen or so "Truman Show" neighborhoods in which all factors are the same, except some neighborhoods have more ice cream trucks. Then you see which neighborhoods have more drownings. Rinse and repeat.
It might not be practical, but it (in principle) is a way science could detect the strength of the correlation.
(January 17, 2022 at 11:54 pm)GrandizerII Wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but neither of these two theories attempts to explain how phenomenological consciousness comes about, only how it could be simulated in non-human entities. The hard problem is not about the latter concern, but the former.
You could go deeper than these theories attempt. Neither fully explains the ontology of consciousness. But, if we were to discover that one or both of the theories is false, we'd be one step closer to understanding that ontology, whatever it is.
