Philosophy, Not Science

There can be no conventional “scientific” theory of consciousness because science can only describe and predict how nature behaves, not what nature is . The latter investigation belongs to the realm of philosophy, or more precisely, metaphysics. Bertrand Russell came to this observation already a century ago (Russell 2009).

I’d argue that Science is the process of moving beliefs along the Faith - Math spectrum. It adds explanatory power to our various beliefs so we have knowledge closer to Math to hang those beliefs on and do not need to rely as much on Faith. There is still an element of Faith involved, but the more science we do around an idea, the more Math-y we sh... See more

But we've forgotten that all science can do is falsify hypotheses. It's a process for belief refinement through falsification. It does not prove things. It gives us reasons to rely less on faith, and more on math, when trying to know certain things about the world. That's all it can do.