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Philosophy > science
Fight me
Science is philosophy. Somewhere along the way people seem to have forgotten that
Here’s a fun game:
Pick any Wikipedia article. Click the first link. Keep clicking the first link. Eventually you’ll end up at Philosophy and forever be in a loop going back to Philosophy.
Turns out conscious thinking and applying logical rigor is the basis for everything we perceive.
I’m trying this out.
Here’s the results: Shadow King (Marvel character): success after about 10 links
Ernest Shackleton (article of the day): 10 clicks
Wikipedia (the article): 4 clicks
Church of the Holy Mother of God, Bolshiye Saly: 14 clicks
James Loren Martin: 24 clicks
Annette Ziegler: 14 clicks
Almost all of them went through Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of Art. Seems like a pretty reliable rule.
You know what I mean, brother. There’s a huge scope of difference between applied sciences and natural philosophy. Our technological advancements fail to resolve fundamental questions about the human condition. Scientists rarely study epistemology or philosophy in order to attain our degrees and I think it shows in the public trend toward scientism.
Scientism is so pervasive and so ridiculous. For example there’s people who say magic isn’t real because science can explain it. No shit science can explain it, that’s the point of science. It’s people defining science in opposition to magic based on cultural values instead of actually knowing what science is. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/tautological-denial-of-magic-0e311ca94c2a
Lol, I love when the woo community can’t argue in good faith, so have to artificially drag science to their level by calling it “scientism”.
Magic isn’t real because you can’t prove it’s real, and science isn’t opposed to magic, because magic isn’t on the playing board.
I’m a degree-holding job-working scientist and I love science. I also love magic. Magic can be proven. Scientists have published hundreds of papers on the powerful placebo effect, also known as magic. Don’t tell me you’re going to deny the existence of the placebo effect?
