Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 11:47 am
It was the struggle against the intersubjective consensus of pre-scientific assumptions that brought about the triumph of natural science as a reliable source of practical knowledge.
Wrong!!
Scientific facts are grounded on intersubjective consensus upon the scientific FSK.
What are scientific facts are at best polished conjectures.
Generally, Science merely
assumed there is an objective reality as a convenience and there is no way science will ever know what is really-real, i.e. the way-things-are.
1. You are mistaken in thinking 'water is H20' is represented by an objective reality but that is merely a pseudo-reality with pseudo-objective-reality grounded on the scientific FSK which is based on intersubjective consensus.
2. What is more real with 'water [one molecule] is H20' is it comprised of one atom of Oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen entangled with one another grounded on the scientific FSK which is based on intersubjective consensus.
3. But that water [one molecule] is H2O is '1 oxygen+2 hydrogen atoms' is still a pseudo-reality with pseudo-objective-reality grounded on the scientific FSK which is based on intersubjective consensus.
4. One can dig further but at every stage, that is still pseudo-reality with pseudo-objective-reality grounded on the scientific FSK which is based on intersubjective consensus.
Tell me where is the matter that is absolutely independent of human consensus?
Do you think the universe that existed before humans appeared, and that will exist when humans have gone, somehow depends on human consensus? What sort of blithering drivel is this? It's as though you're seeing things inside out. Why say that the chemical composition of water is a pseudo-reality? I fear for your mental health.
You are really ignorant.
You are the one who is delusional in insisting there is an objective reality of the reality you have experienced empirically.
Note the link from Hoffman.
Donald Hoffman: There is No Objective Reality
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=31424
Here is what Seeds picked from the video;
Seeds wrote:At around the 12:25 minute mark of the video, Hoffman stated the following (this also includes my clarifying [bracketed] interjections):
- “...objects don’t exist as pre-existing things. When I see an apple we like to think that’s because there really is an apple, and I’m saying no no, there’s some other reality out there, but just like the blue icon on your desktop [computer screen] doesn’t resemble the true file [an actual email, for example], the apple does not resemble anything in objective reality – it’s an abstract data structure....”
He’s on the right track, but he seems to have things backwards (at least in the way he worded that quote). And that’s because (IMO) the term “abstract data structure” should be applied to the quantum underpinning of the apple and not to the apple itself.
Anyway, he went on to say:
- “...the point of this is that we create any physical object that we see - in the moment that we see it...”
As I had stated, the term "create" [or co-create] is a very loose term here.
The significance is, reality-as-it-is cannot be independent of human conceptions via experience, perceptions and other senses.
The above views by Hoffman are supported by many current scientists, philosophers and those of the past.
Point is you are ignorant and your insistence is delusional.
What other theory of truth that you can demonstrate that is right?
What we mean when we talk about factual assertions being true is
what constitutes what we call truth, and there's no other court of appeal. To say otherwise is to entertain the metaphysical delusion that the noun
truth is the name of a thing of some kind that we don't understand.
And the most important thing we mean when we say a factual assertion is true is that its truth is independent from individual or collective opinion.
We'd laugh any claim that an assertion is true '
because that's the consensus opinion' out of court. But that's precisely your ridiculous consensus theory of truth: this is true because we all (or 73% of us) think it's true. What fucking nonsense.
You should laugh and pity yourself that you are ignorant and delusional 'literally'.
Scientific truths/facts are based on intersubjective consensus upon the scientific FSK with the assumption that is objective reality to those justified truths.
There is no way a hypothesis is confirmed as a scientific truth until it is peered review and accepted by a consensus of scientific in accordance to the requirements of the scientific FSK.
So you are insisting scientific knowledge is fucking nonsense??
Note your that "
what-constitutes what-we-call-truth" is non-existent, i.e. an illusion.
There is no way science and you will ever realize the reality of "
what-constitutes what-we-call-truth".
Science merely ASSUMES "
what-constitutes what-we-call-truth" exists for its convenience to resolve a cognitive dissonance.
Note, scientific facts are knowledge in one perspective, but they also a package of
realized-reality-as-it is.
There is no real objective reality of "
what-constitutes what-we-call-truth."
There is no ultimate substance that constitute what we call truth - note the counter against 'substance theory'.
You did not answer my question directly above.
What other theory of truth that you can demonstrate that is right?
Rather you are making noises in response.
The terms co-create [I did not say 'invent'] is a bit loose.
The main point is we cannot separate what is reality, i.e. all-there-is from the human conditions because humans are part and parcel of reality.
Reality, i.e. all-there-is is an emergence.
So here's your claim: humans are part of reality, so humans co-create the reality of which they're part. What utter fucking nonsense.
As usual you are the ignorant one which is exposed by your resorting to vulgarity.
Otherwise present a sound argument to counter my views.
Note the Link of Hoffman
Donald Hoffman: There is No Objective Reality
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=31424
then provide rational counter arguments if you don't agree.
In one [only] perspective there is the empirical external world that is independent of the human body, BUT that is only apparent and not objective externalness.
Since humans are part and parcel of reality -all-there-is- the reality is such that humans cannot be ultimately and absolutely be independent of reality -all-there-is-.
Demonstrate to me humans can be ultimately and absolutely be independent of reality -all-there-is-.
YOU CANNOT!
What are you smoking?
Who ever says humans can be independent from the reality of which we're part?
This monstrous straw man seems to have invaded and taken over your mind.
Again, here's the nonsense: we're part of reality, so we co-create that reality. Bollocks.
Again you are exposing your ignorance.
If you agree as implied above that humans are part-and-parcel of the reality human are part thereof, then, whatever the facts-of-reality-are, they cannot be independent of or separated from humans [conception, etc.].
But then, you insist elsewhere, facts are independent of humans individually or collectively.
Just wrong. We can know and describe reality only in our ways of knowing and describing it. That's trivially true. But that doesn't mean we co-create that reality. That's fucking nonsense.
As clarified, the term 'co-create' is used loosely.
Yes humans describe reality but the significance is, humans cannot be independent of reality as it is and which they are a part of, i.e. all-there-is.
Note you are in agreement as above, as implied in your own words'
PH:
Who ever says humans can be independent from the reality of which we're part?
So you agree, humans cannot be independent from the reality of which we're part of.
Since there is no absolute independent reality,
Donald Hoffman: There is No Objective Reality
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=31424
thus the specific verified and justified reality of each FSK represent the reality of humans where science is the most credible, thus the standard bearer.
That you yearn for an independent reality that is independent of you [impossible] is due to some desperate psychological existential drive.
To repeat. You've been well and truly suckered and seduced by some excitingly radical-sounding post-truth crap. Remedy: get a grip, try some genuinely skeptical critical thinking, and chuck the crap down the crapper, where it belongs.
On a rigorously philosophical insight, you are the ignorant one who is delusional in clinging to that "
what-constitutes what-we-call-truth" which is non-existent in real reality, i.e. an illusion.
This delusional is due to some psychological existential drive within you and the majority of humans.
Don't just keep making noise from an empty-tin [brain], give me rational and sound argument why you think I am delusional?
You are in a mess because you being an ignorant philosophical gnat insist in being arrogantly-right without sound justifications.
And, btw, none of this claptrap does anything to demonstrate that there are moral facts.
Again you are ignorant.
Point is,
Scientific facts are verified and justified empirically and philosophically upon the scientific FSK. There are no independent "objective reality of
what-constitutes what-we-call-scientific-fact".
Similarly, therefore,
Moral facts are
verified and justified empirically and philosophically upon the moral FSK. There are no independent "objective reality of
what-constitutes what-we-call-moral-fact".
Don't bring in your ineffective 'morally wrong', what I am onto are the moral variance from justified moral facts are norms/standards imperative within a moral framework and system.