I'm going to bullet point the key, hard-to-vary, components that may or may not result in falsification. In doing so, I will be stating not my personal preference, but the long standing convention. In light of this faithfulness simply to what it actually is, I feel a little aggrieved by the stream of unrelenting dismissiveness, resorts to claims of unintelligibility on my part, allegations of ill motivation, irrelevance and the rest of it. So I will bullet point it here, very briefly. And if the same individuals want to continue the way they are going, I shall suggest they put their money where their mouths are, and lay cash wager which one of us is correct, and we shall take our dispute to some of the major and esteemed leading scientists of our time. And then we shall see. Falsification. 1. A precise, non-trivial prediction must be found in a theory, with the following two key characteristics: It says something NEW about the world, that goes over and above an Explanation of that which we already know. Second, that it may be formulated with complete separation and independence from the theory from which it spawns, and stated entirely within the pre-existing realm of the incumbent hard won knowledge already in place. This is the first layer of separation. The theory from the prediction, the prediction in terms of the incumbent theory of the world. 2. Second. The theorist has no SAY, more than any other person, in how the prediction will be tested. The end to end process encapsulating all components involved in the eventual lead up to an observation event, is ENTIRELY outside the theory and the argumentations of the theorist. This is the second layer of separation,. 3. Third, an even higher level of separation must be met, between the two strands of science, on the one side being the source of the prediction and on the other the source of the observation. As such, two distinctive paradigms of science are necessary. If one is theory deriving, the other is technological. If one is human creative, the other is empirical. If one field produces the prediction, another field tests the prediction. Like Physics, and astronomy. This is the multifolding degrees of separation that set us free from our own delusions and dreams and imagings, that had dominated our condition since the dawn of our and made us prisoners in palaces of ignorance which no human had ever broken free of. It was only with this, this extreme dedication to not believing a word of our own sayings, and trusting to no-one that they could know let alone control the huge assumptions we all would be sneaking through, without even knowing it, where there not these multiple layers of separation for the first time...maybe in the whole universe....set a kind free and opened an age of objective discovery. This matters. A lot. To everyone, all humans. It matters when someone misconceives this fundamemental bedrock of science. It isn't ok for people to make up their own meanings for falsification. It isn't virtuous at all to write free passes. Because we could actually this precious beautiful thing. And then all we would have is what we had before. Dreams and delusions and priests and medicine men, and nothing that ever took root and grew. So I am passion for this. I love science. I am loyal to science. I'm fine with comp and whatever else anyone wants to believe. But let's remember and allow ourselves to be reminded what is fundamental to the scientific revolution. If someone needs to relearn the nature and distinctiveness of falsification, there's no shame in that. But it isn't right to make our own versions up, and say its the same, when it's stripped of the hard-to-vary fundamental character of separation Let's lay bets if that's what it'll take. If Bruno stands by his claims to falsifiability and the definitions he has attached to falsifiability. Let's go to it..we can go all the way. Let's see what leading scientific minds of our day think it is.
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