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MATERIALISM HAS NO EXPLANATORY POWER
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MATERIALISM HAS NO EXPLANATORY POWER
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No, it's just that our conception of consciousness is undeveloped.
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>>1292543
Proofs?
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>>1292551
What is matter? What is all this? What is nature? What is being?
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>tfw you haven't bought something new / eaten something new / travelled somewhere new in 48 hours
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But but but
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Immaterial reality is basically just explanatory filler. It's poorly defined and totally removed from any measurable reality, so you can make it do just about anything you want. It's basically just "magic".
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>>1292649
Right. Let's see a idealist build a bridge, kek.
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>>1292670
>construction workers and architects are materialists

The fuck am I reading
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No metaphysics, by definition, can have any explanatory power.
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>>1293949
> theory that tries explain everything
> can't have an explanatory power
Are you from STEM by a chance?
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>>1293949
So where does that leave physics? lel
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>>1292551
>thinking there is a consciousness
Reminder that consciousness is an unfalsifiable concept and scientifically worthless.
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>>1293972
>Reminder that consciousness is an unfalsifiable concept and scientifically worthless.

lol no.

Fuck off back to the 17th century Hume.
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>>1293972
> Reminder that consciousness is an unfalsifiable concept and scientifically worthless.
Reminder that falsificationism is is an unfalsifiable concept and scientifically worthless.
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>>1294115
>That comic.
Kek.
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Why do people come toa humanities forum to spout that unfalsifiable bs? As if the complexity of human experience could be reduced to logic.
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>>1294115
There is no way to conduct a disipline like science without certain apriori. You can debate how science fits into the larger context philosophically, but scientific knowledge is unaffected by your speculations of a spirit world directing this one
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>>1294564
Science can't explain what reality is. Science is just the modeling of relations and states within the system. It has no extra-systemic vantage from which to proclaim to us the true nature of existence
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