Posted: Mar 03, 2013 7:48 am
jfraatz wrote:Sovereign wrote:You do realize that the link you posted states in the last paragraph that the view is subjective. I want to ask you a question. What is science and what is the process of science? Also, what in quantum biology proves your position? All I see is you trying to use philosophy to refute science and repeating that philosophy is greater than the scientific method at determining reality. If that were the case, then why did we abandon the pursuit of philosophy for the scientific method during the enlightenment? Philosophy doesn't answer questions about the nature of reality. If it did, we would have never developed the scientific system we have today.
No I'm not. I'm using philosophy to refute scientism. (Attempts to use science to answer questions that are not in the empirical domain -which is of course a category error)
And philosophy does have answers about the nature of reality. We know this because philosophy is the basis of the scientific method.
Funny how, if philosophy have answers, nobody seems to have found them. Except all the people who claim to have done so, but has shit to show for it but grandiose metaphysical castles erected into thin air. They can't demonstrate anything, they can just sit there and mindlessly assert. Their assertions don't lead to anything, they don't predict anything of value, and when they do it's either practically untestable or eventually shown false empirically.
Same old tiresome hubristic philosophical bullshit, day in, day out. They write gigantic tomes of wibble, supported by the previous generation's gigantic tomes of wibble, all the way back to the dawn of civilization. What has it done for us? What has it given anyone but just more gigantic tomes of wibble?
It's never helped anyone harvest their crops, combat infectious disease, pave a road, build a hospital, get food on their table, relieve them of painful wearing labor and stress. It's done SHIT. It's a fucking game played by people who like to stack endless amounts of rules on top and then "play" each other at "define term" and "spot the circularity/question begging". That's what philosophy is. At least, all the kind I've seen.