There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History
- By stevevw
- Physical & Life Sciences
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Is it just about the measures. What about the method of changing the material to then make the works. Measuring will only tell us about the end product and how precise or what looks like made it. It won't tell us exactly how it was achieved. Only that something more sophisticated was involved.what kind of "conscious experiences" are needed to make or measure stone vases?
But say under the aspect of conscious experiences that this immersed ancients in nature more deeply. Not as in the sciences and measuring or qualifying reality. But as a relational aspect that allowed ancients into a deeper awareness or insight that gave them knowledge of how nature works and thus could manipulate it.
Just through sheer conscious experiences of nature. Remember that these ancients had no enlightenment or critical thinking in scientific terms. It was all experiential.
Yes so therefore when it oversteps its boundaries its no onger science but attempting metaphysical belief. When its used to rationalise the supernatural belief or transcedent aspects of reality as being unreal its overstepping the mark.That is how science works. If it didn't work that way it would not be science.
As a science method for what it does look at its very good. But this should be acknowledge that this is only one aspect or dimension even of reality. In fact there are emerging anomelies in this paradigm that point to a deeper dimension and paradigm. So its really paradigms competing with each other over what is fundemental reality.
A reasonable philsophical position would be to say exactly this. That science as a method only tells us a small part of nature and reality and that there are other aspects that don't fall into this paradigm which are just as relevant and real that need to be considered before anyone starts making ontological claims about what counts as real or fact or truth.
Yes because you believe and 'believe' is the destinguishing word that all reality is within the causal closure of the physical. In otherwords there is only one fundemental reality which is the physical, or material or naturalistic. So long as all causes stem back to a quantifiable aspect that can be measures in quantifiable empiricle measures.You might. I don't.
So of course all aspects including epiphenomena, religious beliefs, consciousness, experiences are caused by the physical. For example conscious experiences as an epiphenomena of the physical brain. Nothing supernatural or transcedent in nature.
So by metaphysical belief you will only see the physical causes and force onto all phenomena a physical explanation ie miracles are some sort of biological anomely we have yet to understand. BUt physical in nature 100%. No Gods or miracles here.
Yet this is stepping beyond science because if there were miracles or the supernatural they will have a physical effect. Really all science is doing describing what is happening and explaining this in the physical terms it happens within. It says nothing about the nature of that phenomena. Thats how science has morphed into a belief that most cannot even see this and just assume like everything else its true. .
Everything is about experiences. How do you know we are not in some Simulation. Or at least a big part or some part is just a MInd conception of whatever is the latest view of reality. Can we actually step outside our minds to scientifically verify that how we concieve reality is correct.How is this about "experiences"?
I mean theres enough "experiential' knowledge and lived reality to say that all the religions, and transcedent aspects of humans is not just one big physical epiphenomena and most good philsophers will agreed. That we should take seroiusly what has basically been the default human behaviour for millenia. We are all not deluded and dumb science deniers lol.
Experience or rather conscious experience is probably the most reliable aspect from which we can know reality because its direct. Its not made into 3rd party science which actually detaches itself, or rather tries to from our direct contact with reality.
What is reality. We can know the physical objective data of how a house is constructed. Or how a mountain is made. So what. HUmans are meaning making creatures and the world is not about the coffee cups objective reality. But whats in the cup, what the cup represents in reality. Thats the experiential aspect of reality thats missing in science. Yet it is the most dominant and lived reality.
Ok your getting into semantics again. I mean the same as in all believe in some sort of transcedent existence or being or spirit of some sort. Its just different expressions of the same fundemental belief.They are not the same.
I can get the evidence on this if you want. From meta analysis of the different beliefs and cultural practices. They all home in on the same core beliefs. Just different expressions. Which is the subjective cultural part. But the fundemental belief is ingrained and as much a part of humans as the need to eat.
THis exactly proves my point that the scientific method oversteps and becomes a belief. You say this like its an ontological fact or truth. We investigated all religious beliefs and all the other paradigms of different knowledge and worldviews and we verified beyond doubt that there is nothing to all this.We looked. There isn't.
Without even realising that even science itself admits there are different paradigms and that you are claiming that the paradigm you exist in or are using itself according to science cannot understand the paradigm its objecting to. Hense its based on an assumption and belief.
Not just that you have put yourself in a very small group of enlightened ones who claim the truth and that the majority of humans are deluded and therefore we must spread the gospel of enlightenment and metaphysical naturalism.
Ok my claims, my words, my beliefs like the majority of others. What are you saying here. Are you just repeating back that these are alternative beliefs and knowledge people can have. Or are you acknowledging that there are alternative ways of knowing reality besides your beliefs.Your claim.
Your words.
Another example of not even being aware that this is completely related. Is not this about alternative ways of knowing including advanced knowledge of the world, nature and reality. I mentioned conscious experiences as one aspect which includes phenomenal belief and other transcedent aspects.Nothing to do with the topic.
So if as I pointed out that the paradigm of the scientific method only can deal with the quantifiable and at least some of this ancient lost knowledge is steeped in belief and conscious experiences of the nature.
Then saying that using the science method to even evaluate such knowledge is the wrong method. It cannot tell. IT has not the tools of method to even measure such knowledge. Yet you claim it can.
I won't even go into the vast amount of evidence for this. BUt merely say the fact you state that "they aren't and there isn't" is itself evidence that this is more a belief thatn fact or reality.They aren't.
There isn't.
Hum so what evidence is there for beauty, the experience of music, colors, the sense of awe in looking at the universe and knowledge of something greater emerges and persistently so that people build things to the heavens and gods. At what point can science determine this is just make believe and not real knowledge that there is actually some transcedent aspect of reality that really and truelly is part of being human and is a reality beyond humans.I've been immersed in reality for 50 years. That reality matches what "science tells us".
Show me the test. In fact show me the test that shows how the so called objective reality we live in right now is actually real itself and not some interface reflection of something deeper that looks nothing like what we see.
That I have to explain this means you will not be open.What big chunk of knowledge about reality?
Yes thats how western material science has always treated indigenous knowledge. As some vague superstition. Or in this case also atheism which basically aligns well with material science. Or rather metaphsyical naturalsim.What is this "indigenous knowledge"? You've offered nothing but the vague notion of it for a couple of weeks and many many posts. Those claims lack any specificity.
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