"Science" became a better analytical and predictable tool partly by means of setting up new criteria and language for information organization.
Such will also have to be done for "paranormal" science. There must be accepted new models of normality that eliminate the "para." Different, but please, at least as diligent!
I don't have a problem with 'as diligent'. I do have one with 'more diligent', as in the 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof' crowd - surely the point is all claims require the same standard of proof?
There's also the whole side-issue of science-as-fundamentalist-materialism, which is not only bad philosophy but bad science... Don't get me wrong, I like science. It's a useful and solid tool - mostly. It should not be the only tool in the box, though. And it should never try to claim either absolute knowledge or absolute dominance as a paradigm.
Bottom line, science plays it safe and ruthlessly defends its limits. Totally human and - here's the scandalous part - punishes those who try to make the universe a little more open."Oh come on now
( ... )
Re: Oh brothercatvincentSeptember 5 2007, 22:04:36 UTC
No, I think 'science' does precisely what she says sometimes. Go look up the life story of Wilhelm Reich sometime. Or see what's been happening to Michael Persinger recently
( ... )
Re: Oh brothereiredrakeSeptember 6 2007, 12:48:02 UTC
I'd surely love to see it done again. Hell, one of my life ambitions is to run a long study of people casting spells in and out of faraday cages to see if spellcasting relies on EM or not. Trouble is, possibly magic isn't always a repeatable phenomena, or at least that the factors involved are not quantifiable. That of course should not stop us trying.That's part of the reason I started a ghost hunting filter in my own LJ a while back, though I got distracted from it with the birth of my daughter
( ... )
To clarify... I would LOVE to find something beyond the normal realm of what I can see, hear, touch, taste and smell. I would LOVE for there to be magick. Hell my favorite RPG is Shadowrun because not only do you get the high tech factor you get people chucking fireballs up the street
( ... )
Comments 6
Such will also have to be done for "paranormal" science. There must be accepted new models of normality that eliminate the "para." Different, but please, at least as diligent!
Reply
There's also the whole side-issue of science-as-fundamentalist-materialism, which is not only bad philosophy but bad science... Don't get me wrong, I like science. It's a useful and solid tool - mostly. It should not be the only tool in the box, though. And it should never try to claim either absolute knowledge or absolute dominance as a paradigm.
Reply
Reply
Reply
That of course should not stop us trying.That's part of the reason I started a ghost hunting filter in my own LJ a while back, though I got distracted from it with the birth of my daughter ( ... )
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment