RE: A question regarding proof
September 10, 2011 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2011 at 9:09 pm by Ryft.)
(September 10, 2011 at 5:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If you have an issue with our current understanding of consciousness as a product of the brain (and who knows why you would argue against such a thing), I'd advise you to do the exact same thing I advised Fred to do: science.
It is exquisite irony that you talk about "our current understanding of consciousness as a product of the brain" and then advise Fred and myself to do science, as if that current understanding is a result of scientific observation. I guess that is what happens when you assiduously avoid the questions I asked you regarding that very issue. Whatever it takes to cling to your position, I guess.
(September 10, 2011 at 5:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: ... dark matter ... photosynthesis ...
You said that "a great many things exist that we have not yet discovered." We clearly have discovered dark matter and photosynthesis. We have a long way to go in understanding what dark matter is or how photosynthesis works, but their existence certainly have been discovered. I suspect your initial claim may have been improperly framed.
(September 10, 2011 at 5:59 pm)Skepsis Wrote: To ask what we DON'T know is an ignorant question to ask, as there is an infinite amount of things we do not know. [Asking] what science hasn't answered tells me you don't think before you post something, or that you are very narrow-minded.
Your brutally non-sequitur opinion of me notwithstanding, I have never asked what we DON'T know. What I have asked for is the alleged observation of A causing B (because I hold that such is a product of inductive inference, not observation; it is correlation that is observed, while causation is inferred, something we have understood as far back as the Enlightenment). Furthermore, asking questions that science has not answered is eminently a scientific-minded approach; it is the very driving force behind scientific inquiry and discovery to ask questions that science has not answered—so that science may answer it! How you call that ignorant or narrow-minded is truly bewildering.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
