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RE: The Mental Disease that afflicts most of Humanity and how Bitcoin and other Crypto’s can solve it
i completely agree on the limitations of science. But in my opinion the term science should remain unchanged and the study of phenomena like conciseness remains reserved for metaphysics.
Science is defined with a very strict boundary and that still remains useful.
I'm not so sure that strict barrier is really there. Instead science will have to be carefully defined each and every time you use the word so as not to mislead people. Particle physics will not triumph as the real basis of physics.
True the study of consciousness is known as metaphysics but it will not remain as the "junior science of abstract theory." Consciousness does a better job of describing the real world we live in. The material basis is actually the first rung on the latter.
The experimenter is part of the experiment and by sticking to a material bias, she is only describing the world of the 5 senses. That will be seen as senseless proposition as understanding deepens.
Just as all mathematics is theoretical only, so too is all science. That's the kind of world we really live in.
Let me give you my definitions. I understand that this is not how many people from the "science religion" will see things. When I talk about metaphysics, I am actually not inferring that it is inferior or superior, it is just different.
Science is based on a few fundamental principles. It creates a theory that is predictive, then these predictions are confronted with experiments. These experiments must be reproducible and the outcome does not depend on the scientist making the experiment.
This is crucial since it means that all scientist can agree on objective statements. As long as science is not corrupted anyone can participate in this procedure. All scientific statements can be independently verified and there is no central authority. Consensus is reached after extensive debates and experiments and that process takes about 10 to 20 years.
Metaphysics is fundamentally different. We are no longer looking at the world as a closed experiment, but realise we are ourselves part of the experiment. There is no more objective outside position. The outcomes of experiments depend on the person doing the experiment.
This change of perspective from physics to metaphysics is so huge that entirely different approaches are requires to gain information. For this reason I like to separate the two as much as possible. If physics ever includes consciousness, it will be so different that I think we should not even call it physics anymore.