Essentially, adhom Archived Message
Posted by walter  on December 27, 2019, 1:31 pm, in reply to "Video published by the "Institute for Arts and Ideas""
I haven't read Hoffman but I did read some stuff by Tom Campbell who is a physicist.
Appealing to authority in the name of science is old as the hills, and to my mind such put-downs do not advance anyone's scientific credentials. Indeed these often precede scientific acceptance of new theories - they are predictable, hence of no value.
Some specifics need to be discussed.
Cheers- I'll get the popcorn 
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- Donald Hoffman on the unreality of 'reality'. Not directly 'news' media stuff, but important for the - RhG December 27, 2019, 10:11 am
- As usual, this is humanities masquerading as science, because science has explanatory power, whereas - Shyaku December 27, 2019, 11:04 am
- Balls.. - Gerard December 27, 2019, 11:20 am
- Re: As usual, this is humanities masquerading as science, because science has explanatory power, whereas - Gerard December 27, 2019, 11:28 am
- Re: As usual, this is humanities masquerading as science, because science has explanatory power, whereas - Gerard December 27, 2019, 11:47 am
- Have you really not noticed the ferment that's going on in the hardest of hard sciences, S? Re - RhG December 27, 2019, 11:54 am
- Dinosaurs - Gerard December 27, 2019, 12:05 pm
- You don't have to peddle pseuds to me - or anybody - we don't exist, right... - Shyaku December 27, 2019, 12:55 pm
- And btw we DO exist; but as minds or souls rather than our presumed, virtual, and transient bodies, - RhG December 27, 2019, 4:51 pm
- Video published by the "Institute for Arts and Ideas" - Shyaku December 27, 2019, 11:07 am
- Re: Donald Hoffman on the unreality of 'reality'. Not directly 'news' media stuff, but important for the - ceemac666 December 28, 2019, 10:42 am
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