The scientific language is really good for a number of things, but it has to objectify the world in order to do those things. So that means it can get you to the moon and build an iPad which mythopoetic thinking and philosophical thinking and metaphysical thinking will never be able to do. The science has nothing to say about why it feels like something to feel pain or why it's like something to see red. All subjective quality of life is something that science can't say anything about. It doesn't mean that we don't have evidence that it's real. It says real to each one of us as anything else could possibly be.

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