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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Science simply assumes a naturalistic explanation because no one can even explain what a supernatural explanation would be like, let alone propose one.
~~ Paul |
Yes, but as I have pointed out before, in the past, science has repeatedly expanded its scope of acceptable explanations - fields, intrinsic probability, new properties of matter, ever more abstract mathematical formulations, etc. It is only in this one area that any expansion seems off limits because somehow the dominant view has become that because matter at ordinary temperatures and pressures is thought to be well understood at the physical level, no further fundamental change is possible!
Even Roger Penrose got a lot of flak for suggesting that new physics might be needed to explain consciousness - and he never once mentioned Ψ in his two main books!
What is so incredible to me, is that people can be so dogmatic without being able to offer an adequate explanation of their own!
David