RE: A question regarding proof
September 8, 2011 at 6:32 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2011 at 6:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 8, 2011 at 6:23 pm)Fred Wrote: our EEG or an fMRI or any of the most sophisticated gear we have can track the brain activity, but it cannot disclose the content of the interior experience apprehended by the subject.
My point is that when it comes to evidence, the idea that only objective evidence is real or valid is not accurate, nor the whole story, and except as an ideal or a club to wield, in practice, nobody really believes it is.
The idea that evidence = objective evidence alone is wrong.
What, a thin appeal to ignorance? And if we map this process completely and develop a machine to "read dreams", what happens then to your god-of-the-gaps? Something tells me you'll just move along, as others have done every time we remove the lightning from the hand of Zues.
Was this all you wanted to say? You should have started out with that instead, because now I feel cheated. No one has ever claimed that subjective evidence couldn't be part of the overall package, this entire thread has been a straw man from go. Subjective evidence ALONE is insufficient to declare knowledge, especially if such evidence contradicts objective evidence. In practice, all science is performed with objective evidence as priority. Leave it to a magical thinker to tell us what we believe.
What a waste of time.
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