iiioiia t1_iudj48s wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:48 PM

Reply to comment by JustAPerspective in Even if they never get it right, philosophers should at least aim at getting it right because getting it right can be important. by thenousman

>Physics is the study of how everything works.

Does it encompass the metaphysical realm?

JustAPerspective t1_iue1pj3 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:58 PM

That is a good question.

Metaphysical is still part of 'everything', innit? Way we see it, physics cannot study or discuss what it does not experience, yet it can - and ought to - acknowledge the possibilities. The blindspot of any thought-science devised by sentients is that sentients' own inability to address that which is can not detect, yet may exist anyway (i.e., Dark Matter/Energy).

How a scientist meets the unknown reveals a lot about the habits they've been practicing - absolutism has few places of validity; in real science, anything may be challenged, and often is.

iiioiia t1_iue5gv0 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:23 PM

> Metaphysical is still part of 'everything', innit?

Opinions vary. A lot of people (some of them otherwise genuinely "smart") seem to believe that it does not even exist, that it "is" "woo woo".

> Way we see it, physics cannot study or discuss what it does not experience, yet it can - and ought to - acknowledge the possibilities.

No disagreement here, but the fan base seems to have not gotten the message. Maybe that scientists rarely knowledge that science does not even try to study the entirety of reality (while often implying that it does) has something to do with it. Personally, I doubt most scientists even have a strong understanding of the genuine complexity involved.

> in real science, anything may be challenged, and often is

I wonder how much real science still exists on the planet. It's an interesting idea to contemplate.