tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5509848146631231386..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Real science must be anchored to common experienceBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-73348205539806927482012-03-20T10:58:15.331+00:002012-03-20T10:58:15.331+00:00Re Neuroscience - speaking as an ex-neuroscientist...Re Neuroscience - speaking as an ex-neuroscientist, it is one of the most wholly worthless areas of science I have encountered (not the worst - but mostly bad, especially the most prestigious types of neuroscience such as 'functional brain imaging').Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68781356615141484092012-03-20T08:35:57.687+00:002012-03-20T08:35:57.687+00:00"the neuroscientists' explanations are lo..."the neuroscientists' explanations are logical, reasonable, fact-based"<br /><br />No, they are not. Even atheistic scientists and philosophers have pointed out the wholesale gaps in the logic and metaphysical blunders in the neurobabble.Gyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09941686166886986037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-81911404773934176062012-03-19T22:44:25.004+00:002012-03-19T22:44:25.004+00:00This is especially true in the current push to exp...This is especially true in the current push to explain away/deny the existence of the soul by attempting to explain all the complexities of human behavior by reducing everything to neurons and brain chemistry. <br /><br />The thing is, the neuroscientists' explanations are logical, reasonable, fact-based, backed up by reams of carefully-collected, peer-reviewed science - and are plain, utter, obvious, laughable nonsense to anyone who's spent significant time away from a university campus or a research lab dealing with actual human beings in all their weird, wonderful, horrible, illogical complexity. <br /><br />But instead of saying: "All my data points to X, and yet that's *obviously* wrong", they stick with the data. Go fig.Nergolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-48097909302009592812012-03-19T22:34:50.205+00:002012-03-19T22:34:50.205+00:00Is there any purpose for string theory aside from ...Is there any purpose for string theory aside from (1) just the fun of the mental exercise and (2) a way to get around the increasing evidence that our universe -- the only one we know -- is amazingly fine-tuned for life on this planet Earth -- an unwelcome and unacceptable development, given the horror of implied (gasp) Intelligent Design?Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-30404674788152903792012-03-19T19:46:07.606+00:002012-03-19T19:46:07.606+00:00Particle Physics is an interesting thing.
Even a ...Particle Physics is an interesting thing. <br />Even a mind-blowing thing. <br />A bit of a blow to physicists, really, to witness basic reality being so fluid, and so arbitrary. <br /><br />The conservative mind seeks order, indeed order is an obsession, to seekers of it. <br />And what if there actually is no order? <br />One may impose it, or one may accept its lack, and find a way to function, anyway. <br />People speak of reality, is if it was common to all. <br />But it is not. <br />Even if it existed, it would not be common to all. <br /><br />And so 'common-sense' is, itself, an arbitrary thing, either agreed upon, or not. <br />This is why all civilizations fail: <br />Built on sand, since sand appears to be the only foundation available to build upon, it comes down to deciding which sand is the firmest. <br />And ultimately, sand will subside and depart. <br /><br />Making sense of the senseless. <br />The thing I most love about God, is His boundless sense of humour. <br />The thing I love least about people, is their boundless lack of it. <br />Perhaps life was never about making-sense. <br />Perhaps only what it is, and what it always was: <br />A medium in which we may either thrive, or not. <br /><br />Free-will.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.com