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Re:TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that spe... by upquark on Friday March 08, 2013 @01:26PM (#5344884)
As far as science is concerned, there's nothing beyond being able to objectively model a phenomenon and make useful predictions about it. If I can fully model the set of brain processes that humans typically call "love", and if I can make useful and accurate predictions based on my model, that's all that I care about as a scientist.

Now, it's entirely possible that reasoning about "love" scientifically requires several layers of new language / models on top of the currently established models in neuroscience, which is why I said it's _theoretically_ possible.

Re:TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that spe... by aneth4 on Friday March 08, 2013 @09:15PM (#5346978)
Subjective experience exists objectively, as in, the subjective experience in your consciousness is an objective reality of the universe. We do not yet know how to model such things, and making useful predictions based in brain activity is great, but it will not be a remotely satisfying model of consciousness.