TL;DR – Scientific investigation is not simply finding patterns and generalizing from them. Sometime ago I met someone who had high standards for what truth is. “Science cannot give any real truth!” “Science uses induction, which is not logically sound.” “All that scientists do is find patterns and generalize them to a rule.” I guess …
TL;DR – Subjective experiences, like consciousness, are outside of what can be experimentally tested. I was at a bar, tired from a long day, when a person started pestering me with questions: “Doesn’t the brain process electrical signals, which is ultimately explained by quantum physics?” “Doesn’t quantum physics say that things happen only because we …
TL;DR – We cannot always validate all answers to a scientific question with the same process. For some yes/no questions, only one side can be actually experimentally verified. Some people write me things like “Is it true that absent of evidence is not evidence of absence?” “Is it true that there my be a China …