agent_nycto

Heh, for someone who has a poor view of philosophy you sure do subscribe to it a lot.

You're fine with making an assumption, and that's ok, that's part of your philosophy.

Heh, amateur hour. Let me show you my watch.

Why bother? They set fire to themselves.

Why does it upset you?

But why oh why aren't people having kids?!

Finished playing through Atomic Heart, and because of that wanted to play a game that was, you know, actually fun instead of a miserable slog, so I've been playing Crab Champions and playing the original BioShock again for the millionth time. Sometimes Sea of Thieves.

Funny, I could see the KKK in all three of them.

Some people can't afford to just move, like if they are dealing with cancer, for example.

And I'm saying that not questioning your senses is unscientific. Questioning our observations, and retesting them, is the very foundation of scientific thinking.

As for living in a purely material universe, how exactly would you test for something immaterial using material means? Would it look like weird unknown forces we can't explain or the results of tests looking different depending on if it's being observed or not?

And also are we going to throw out human experience? Are we not part of the universe? So would not the immaterial things we imagine into existence also exist?

Numbers aren't material but we treat them as real, and use them to study material things to understand them.

But you're assuming, from what I'm reading through your comments, that these shadows are cast by metaphysical forces, and I'm interpreting the allegory as how our senses are ultimately something we can't trust completely.

As accurate as science may seem, it is ultimately based on these senses. It's the best way we can understand the physical world, but science, wisely, always has a caveat at the end of every law and discovery: "... As far as we know."

This is a good thing, it means that nothing is held sacred and everything can be tested and questioned again.

And there's a trend to un fuck up pugs through breeding now, but you think that's unethical as well because that's still owning a pug.

Now I'm not sure you get what the allegory of the cave is about. It's literally trying to explain that our perception can't be 100% trusted.