Let robots be \"babies\" first... (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, January 31, 2011, 16:51 (4841 days ago) @ David Turell


> > You have said on this thread (28 January at 01.38): "Physics trumps metaphysics any day of the week. Scientific Materialism is RELIABLE." Does it? Is it? Are all the factors, faculties, emotions, decisions that you regard as most important in your personal life based on scientific materialism? 
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> Scientific materialism is reliable until the next better theory arrives. A theory is only a workable conjecture, based on the best present evidence at hand. Metaphysical theories are exactly the same, realiable until the next better theory arrives, based on the best present evidence at hand. How and why are two sides of the same coin, not separate magesteria! That makes my theory of a universal intelligence just as valid as theories from sc. mat.-I am intrigued that you assert that physics and metaphysics are two sides of the same coin.-Science is reliable because its application consistently improves itself both in precision and accuacy. Continued application of the same technique took us from an earth-centered universe to something much larger. We went from earth, fire, wind, and water, to subatomic particles. -To radically change something in science, you need massive amounts of experimental data exposing flaws in the old thought, and demonstrating that your formulation explains the same thing, only better.-Not so with metaphysics. To invalidate a metaphysical theory, one must only dislike it. One is allowed to argue however he sees fit with no regard at all for fact, observation, or demonstration, or even logic! It's a child's playground of the mind.-Attempting to say that there is anything close to the same rigidity in metaphysics as in science is missing its point.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"