Oh, ok. I still think we might be able to measure such things in the future, but that's a much more defensible position. I don't see how that pertains to spiritualism tho, maybe there's a term that fits that better. Belief in qualia?
rarWars
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I respectfully disagree. There's nothing inherently preventing a future technology that's able to objectively measure personal experiences, since we don't have any evidence to suggest that thoughts and experiences happen anywhere other than physically in the brain.
Thus-far unobserved spirits are an unnecessary addition to the neurochemical processes we know to occur in the brain and know to drive thinking. By Occam's Razor, an evidence-based worldview must reject these unnecessary assumptions.
Also, no, science is not "filling gaps in spirituality". The claim that there are spirits is the positive case, and bears the burden of proof.
I would class those as psychological experiences, not spiritual ones. Just because we currently lack the tools to very precisely and objectively correlate brain activity with specific thoughts, that doesn't mean we can never quantify that at some future date.
This feels like a "spirituality-of-the-gaps". By this definition lightning was a purely spiritual experience until we figured out that it's electricity. Our lack of understanding on a subject doesn't make it magic, it's just something we don't understand yet, and that's ok. The laws of physics existed long before humans existed to describe them, and they'll continue to function long after we're extinct.
I always love coming into the comments on posts like these to see all the lemmings going absolutely FERAL over the fact that a repost has one word that's censored lmao
So real, I hate peeing where other people can see me, it's so uncomfortable. I always either wait for a stall or find another bathroom.
Skong is real, the cake is a truth, beleivers win. It's a beautiful day.
I'm not a morning person either, but I have ADHD, so coffee does nothing for me. I have to get up 2 hours before I have to leave or else I'm just simply not awake, which is plenty of time for a run.
I don't actually go for a run, but I could. Theoretically.
You got the right 196 :)
I'm doing ok, the weather is finally getting warm enough to kayak again, so I'm heading out on the lake tomorrow. That'll be a lot of fun, so I'm definitely looking forward to it. Otherwise I feel like I'm in a bit of a holding pattern rn, but nothing too unusual.