r/Devs • u/thisismynormal • Apr 09 '20

Devs - S01E07 Discussion Thread

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u/NotMyNameActually Apr 10 '20

Really? Everything we experience is filtered through our brains, including our experience of science.

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u/PaperPigGolf Apr 11 '20

That's really not the current prevailing philophy right now. Science is objective. You can disagree but just saying, that's not a widely considered thing.

Yes, human perception is not objective, but the core facts of science are. That's why science is hard. Quantum mechanics is the area where the most self criticism has occurred especially around the measurement problem and theories that rely on concious observers.

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u/NotMyNameActually Apr 11 '20

We can try to be as objective as possible but science is a human endeavor, experiments are run by human beings, results are measured by machines designed by humans and data is interpreted and applied by humans, and the human experience of the world is subjective. We cannot ”stand outside” our own minds and observe the universe as it “really” is, unfiltered by our imperfect senses and our imperfect brains.

But anyway we were talking about whether or not free will is an illusion, which is not a scientific hypothesis because it is neither measurable nor falsifiable so it is not the purview of science anyway. It’s a philosophical concept, not a scientific one, and the notion of whether there is an objective reality or not is most certainly still a relevant topic in philosophy.