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Re:Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows by airstrike on Friday June 28, 2024 @08:08PM (#40826723)
the science of finding ways to observe it is still science. we couldn't observe many phenomena before we developed the science to do so.
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Re:Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows by eikenberry on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:56PM (#40827558)
Sure, and once we can observe something we can science it. But not until then.
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Re:Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows by mistermann on Friday June 28, 2024 @11:43PM (#40827732)
Does the word "observe" have any constraints? For example: claimed observations, but that lack a way of measuring scientifically. Could science study this phenomenon?
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Re:Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows by eikenberry on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:00PM (#40852165)
Nope. Science is a specific tool of thought with a definition that starts with observation. Science might help feed ideas for technological or other sorts of advancement that allows us to observer more than before, but just because it helps science doesn't make it science.
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