On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 5:23:52 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 20 Sep 2019, at 21:32, Philip Thrift <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > On Friday, September 20, 2019 at 11:22:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 19 Sep 2019, at 12:41, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Like Max Tegmark, in "Our Mathematical Universe", who described how >> duplication of the person results in an inability to perfectly predict >> future outcomes and experiences, in this interview Sean Carroll describes >> how even with perfect knowledge of the universe and it's evolution one >> could not make future predictions about what one will experience due to >> duplication: >> >> https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=TP5W2MG8Jjs&t=1h5m >> >> Perhaps Carroll's explanation might help others who've struggled to get >> past Step 3. >> >> >> Let us pray ... >> >> >> Bruno >> >> >> > As Feyerabend saw (and foresaw) science is now religion. > > > When a scientist proceeds from the mathematics of any theory to any > certain ontology of nature, they are being a religious guru, not a > scientific one. > > > > I totally agree with Feyerabend, except I would have said that deducing an > ontology, and taking it for granted (dogma) is the pseudo-religious trick. > > Science has never been separated from religion, as this is logically > impossible, but indeed, science, when used to claim ontology becomes > pseudo-religion, and pseudo-science. > > The only problem is that Feyerabend seemed to believe in the ontology of > matter, in some of his text, and so fall in the trap that he described here. > > > Bruno >
I wrote the sentence above (n a tweet). :) I put the word "certain" in "certain ontology" to mean the opposite that it is always possibly updatable, and not final. @philipthrift > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/89eae866-bb22-4852-ae3c-c99815e5e4ad%40googlegroups.com.
