Science
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- Morning_star0
Fair question.
The general claims from those that foster scientific materialism/reductionism are that: humans are biological robots, mind is the same as brain, Conciousness is an illusion, there is nothing beyond the material and science understands the nature of all of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. According to this position, these building blocks are limited to particles (matter). And the entire universe, from it's inception, can be explained using this group of particles.
This position is stagnant and dogmatic and is more of a belief, as evidence for something beyond the material is common in almost all areas of science and nature. The claim that science is a belief (the one that started this thread) comes from the fact that scientific materialism cannot be derived from itself. It requires a 'first cause' or 'prime mover' to light the blue touch paper to kick-start the universe.
The problem with your last statement is that measuring things inside a the materialist paradigm is restrictive, exclusive and susceptible to dogmatic assumptions. Most recently this has become a thorny issue when explaining things like the observer effect and quantum entanglement amongst others.
My opinion is that Conciousness has a far more fundamental role in the universe than we currently understand or allow for. Conciousness studies are an incredibly interesting field and IMO are, if we want to understand more about the universe, where our efforts should be focused.- sorry, there's not evidence of anything beyond it, and just saying it doesn't make it truemonospaced
- but I look forward to actual scientific evidence, especially in the areas you are interested inmonospaced
- I want to study Mono in a lab to see if he has a soul...yurimon
- there's no way to study the existence of a soulmonospaced
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