Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf]
by hackable_sand on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:31PM
(#39869722)
You might enjoy Three Books of Occult Philosophy and The Kybalion.
To name a few, modern physics, chemistry, and psychology are rooted in alchemy and astrology.
A major problem is that people accept the literal interpretations of those practices to either discount or credit them. Ironically, this stems from the self-imprisonment in material existence, the bonds of which occult studies seek to cut.
Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf]
by 8338550bff96 on Monday April 01, 2024 @09:50AM
(#39894179)
What counts as evidence? Anwer without making epistemological statements.
No, they grew from experimental evidence. I'm not aware of any scientific knowledge that came from pure thought experiment without experimental validation. Pretty much the only thing you can use that for is maths.
You can say "but lots of discoveries came from medieval philosophers", but that's just because they didn't have a separate word for scientists. I'm using the modern definition of the word, which really makes my argument almost tautologically true. By the modern definition if any philosopher actually provided and answer to a question then people would call it science.