Re:The Consciousness of Invertebrates
by nabla9 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:10PM
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> Who says we do any different
Experiments. You are taking this too philosophically.
>To insist that only scientific knowledge is true knowledge is a form of solipsism.
I don't insist. It's just that there has not been demonstrated any other form of knowledge that could be accepted as evidence that things are different.
> you couldn't 'prove' that I am intelligent, or conscious.
Proving is *never* natural science. Science never proves outside "formal sciences" like mathematics. Science can only show that hypothesis is wrong conditionally. In science you can only say you have evidence supporting hypothesis and evidence falsifying it.
Experiments. You are taking this too philosophically.
>To insist that only scientific knowledge is true knowledge is a form of solipsism.
I don't insist. It's just that there has not been demonstrated any other form of knowledge that could be accepted as evidence that things are different.
> you couldn't 'prove' that I am intelligent, or conscious.
Proving is *never* natural science. Science never proves outside "formal sciences" like mathematics. Science can only show that hypothesis is wrong conditionally. In science you can only say you have evidence supporting hypothesis and evidence falsifying it.