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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by jonny_eh on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:33PM (#20519999)
Right, it's the classic "God of the gaps". People invested in some kind of faith latch onto areas not yet explained by science. This relies on the false belief that if something isn't explained by science, then there's an opportunity for faith to provide value (aka faith is needed to provide an explanation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by prmph on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:23AM (#20525576)
But the many worlds interpretation is also a sort of gap-plugging, unfalsifiable argument to me. With it, no need to actually explain why the universe is one way or another: all the possibilities exist in different worlds.

I think people delude themselves that science, at least as currently practised, is always objective.

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