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Post by Infinite Ego on Mar 25, 2011 18:18:23 GMT -5
Rummaging around in the sinking ship and ran across this again, very interesting.
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Post by jahloon on Mar 26, 2011 10:48:32 GMT -5
I just love that, saw it on first transmission and could not believe it! Played it several times with sound on and off - just amazing how brains work. I feel very easily fooled and easily pleased.
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Post by mirth on Mar 26, 2011 11:36:35 GMT -5
Awesome.
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Post by ck1 on Apr 1, 2011 12:40:31 GMT -5
Wow, this is awesome!
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Post by Infinite Ego on Apr 1, 2011 12:49:22 GMT -5
Experiments like this really create a lot of problems for classical empiricist assumptions. Durkheim went so far as to say that empiricism is irrationalism and might as well be called that.
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Post by Infinite Ego on Apr 1, 2011 12:54:15 GMT -5
I should probably elaborate a bit: positive empiricism (the slogan for positivism = what you see is what you get) is really a lot of trouble. Empiricism is important but in its negative form. Science is best in not proving what 'is true' but what is 'not true' -- the road to science is a negative one, not a positive one. Expressed in an extreme form, science never 'proved' anything. It's great for disproving what is false. This is why we as humans paradoxically can 'make progress' while simultaneously end up 'going nowhere' ;-)
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