I am talking about not taking things for granted.
Except that your uncritical acceptance of woo is doing exactly that.
Scientists have discovered few things.
Really? Few?
The world does not have to limit itself to these few things.
I don't know if you notice, but scientists don't seem to think that science has finished.
There could be lots more and not just in material terms of more galaxies, more particles and so on. I am talking of phenomena that are fundamental such as the mind for example. Or life and death.
Scientists all over the world are working on these exact issues, pushing at the boundaries between what we do and don't know.
We know nothing of the mind or of Life or death.
We currently don't know everything, we know more than we used to, and we're learning more all the time. What we don't have is any alternative sources of reliable knowledge - we have ideas and possibilities, but no reliable way of assessing those. If it proves that these are somehow beyond science's capability - which I don't think is the case, but for the sake of argument - you'd still need something more robust than 'it feels right' to consider any alternatives as actual knowledge.
Our knowledge about them is rudimentary and our assumptions are entirely based on simple observations.
Our understanding is based on some of the most complicated observations we can make, on everything from fMRI scans of brain activity, charting of neural network developments and massive data sets of human activity.
We are quite dismissive about such things and think we know all about them.
No. You are quite dismissive of those findings, and the people doing them, and science in general, without appearing to fully appreciate what it is, what it's done, and the possibilities that still await.
It is only now that things like the mind and consciousness are being taken seriously.
It's only in relatively recent history that we've had the underlying understanding and information to begin to investigate.
Science currently has methodologies and techniques that have been useful for earlier requirements. It still does not have suitable tools to investigate such matters.
It has some, and is developing more as we understand more. The alternatives to science have had no methodologies for centuries, and were therefore not even useful before, they do not appear to have any tools now (which is why they keep trying to steal scientific concepts like quantum indeterminacy and turn into woo) and there is no real prospect that they're developing anything reliable in the future.
New tools and new methods need to be developed to investigate matters that are not as obvious and as easily accessible to our senses.
Science graduated beyond the limitations of our senses with radiation, gravity, telescopes, microscopes, magnets and who know what else centuries ago. New tools, or at least refinements of current tools, probably are required, but so far as I can see it's only science that's attempting to define what those tools might be and how they might work. You're not developing new tools, you're just spouting 'whataboutery' and presuming that old ideas must have validity because... um...
This is what I mean by a new science. It requires an open mind (no....brains will not fall out!) and new paths may need to be walked.
Open minds, new 'paths', increased understanding, multi-disciplinary understandings, cross-pollination of ideas - this is not 'new' science, this is what science has always been.
This requires new people with the vision to see new possibilities.
And a methodology to verify it.
Also, subjective aspects should not be disregarded as merely activities within individual brains.
Not necessarily, of course, but if on investigation there is reason to think that they may be unreliable in certain circumstances then you follow where the evidence leads.
There could be an entire world inside.
There could well be, but counter-intuitively you won't find it by staring at your own navel.
These are real phenomena that need to be taken seriously.
They are being taken seriously. Some of the best and brightest minds in the world are working on these very problems - you need to take them seriously and stop dismissing their work just because they don't have an answer you like.
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