Shane_Patt comments on Tapestries of Gold - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Shane_Patt 27 April 2014 07:23AM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 27 April 2014 08:43:48PM 2 points [-]

Consciousness, value,meaning....

Basically anything that regularly gets dismissed as a non question...

Comment author: Shane_Patt 28 April 2014 09:01:33AM 0 points [-]

Hmm, I don't know that we mean the same thing by "methodological."

When has someone succeeded in producing any effect or predicting any event, specifically by invoking supernatural knowledge?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 28 April 2014 04:59:29PM 1 point [-]

To which the supernaturalism replies: when did natural knowledge tell you what the meaning and purpose of your life is? Same problem as before, IOW.

I don't know how I got into this. I only claimed that naturalist and reductionism don't answer all questions. That doesn't mean something else does.