
198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism
The Michael Shermer Show
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Why Experiments Don't Solve Questions of Being
In philosophy, experiments arer cannot necessarily settle the questions. Science is a set of convenient fictions that allow you to think about nature in a useful way so as to make proper predictions er sub atomic particles and quantum feudes or alecic de higgs bosomer. So science does inform philosophy, but doesn't settle philosophical questions. Human thinking creativityis so vast that philosophers defending losing propositions can find extremely convoluted ways to keep it in the air. Physicalism depends on physical realism, and it's not true,. We know now after forty years of repeatedexperimentations that it's not true unless you believe in fairy tale universes pouping into every fraction of existence for which we have
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