Do they? What are these things that can't be measured. Name. Them. (I suspect we'll get some of the things that follow, but there is no need to ramble on first. Let's get this started.)
The reason I concentrate on the philosophy is I think the evdience for a reality beyond the physical causes cannot be directly verified through observations. But we can certainly argue their validity as we experience these non physical realities everytime we have a conscious experience. This is primarily a mental state seperate from the physical world. So consciousness itself is evidence of a real thing that cannot be reduced to the physical.
From that we can begin to list transcedent realities like the experience of colours, pain, awe, beauty basically any experience where we can subjectively feel what its like to experience that event. Basically these conscious experience are real, we know consciousness is real and yet this cannot be explained by physical causes.
Thomas Nagal summed this up best with his paper
"What is it like to be a Bat". I like this video explanation as it explains the paper in easy to understand terms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZbCctlll4&ab_channel=JeffreyKaplan
The undetectable is "more real" than "reality". Come on, man, this is nonsensical.
Our conscious experience is the only real thing we can know. It comes first, in fact everything comes through our experience. So in that sense what we experience is more real than some proposed concept of an objective world outside our minds. We cannot get outside our minds to check if the 'matter' is something real. So our consciousness is more real and yet we cannot physiucally see it of test it as a physical thing.
I've never experienced anything beyond the natural world. Keep me out of your claim.
Lol perhaps you have but you don't realize it. I mean being able to go to a place in your mind, a memory, to see a loved ones face in your mind, to imagine something beyond your current situation are in some ways realities you can tap into that can effect you, your life and your reality.
I think this is the new frontier in research, how the Mind and consciousness influences reality. This is such a large field from spirituality and consciousness beyond brain to theory of mind, mind over matter, agency, free will, much of the behavioural sciences and evolution.
Thats because science has not been able to incorporate the subjective into the equation as far as what is fundemental reality. Science is a 3rd person methodology so it cannot say anything about subjective conscious experience. But our conscious experience is all we have so if anything is going to reveal a deeper reality it is our 1st person experience and not a 3rd person measure.
Its not until we can incorporate the subjective experience in to the equation that we will truely understand fundemental reality. This seems to be the road block to most sciences now in how do we fit the subject, the observer, agency, our sense of control into the picture without just dismissing it all as some epiphenomena like its a by product and not central when our experience tells us it is central and we are not deluded.
This goes back to the same question I asked above. What is this thing you think we are observing?
In this case take consciousness as this seems the basis for everything. The scientific reductionist view of consciousness will be its an epiphenomena of a physical system. So its an effect of a physical mechanism and thus falls with the casual closure of the physical. But the on the other hand the same evidence is seen by many that consciousness is a real thing beyond the physical brain. Two different explanations for the same phenomena. Ones naturalistic the other beyond naturalistic.
Or not, because nothing you wrote in the block above was actually about time. (And you seem to now reference dark matter and dark energy as non physical. Bizarre.)
Thats because its not just about 'time'. Its about how human made concepts of time or anything can be seen differently in more transcedent terms. The question is what does time represent. We don't really understand the fundemnetal nature of time.
The reference to dark energy and matter relates to the same reasoning of how quantifying reality through science, making reality fall within the causal closure of the physical doesn't account for dark energy and matter which is not yet verified as a thing that falls within the physical.
So really 95% of reality is a mystery to science. How can any measure that can only explain only 5% of reality ever explain the other 95%. I think it would need a massive shift in thinking.
Now we move to the "inner reality" portion of the show...
Why not the inner reality is the only reality. So of course its always a show for us.
I have no "spiritual awareness" and never had.
Depends what you think spirituality is. I think experience the awe of stars on a clear night is similar to a spiritual experience. You cannot help but feel a part of something bigger than yourself and wonder of things beyond this world. Its a natural thing for humans to do. In fact we are born spiritual in a way. We have this natural belief in ideas like the soul and life beyond this world. Its a natural human quality.
Are you confused by serotonin?
Yes of course a materialists will always reduce experiences down to chemicals and electrical signals. All our sense of self and our experiences we believe so real are just fobbed off as silly tricks and delusions caused by chemicals to help us survive. We become robots.
Emotions and psychology. No mystical supernaturalism is needed.
Except when it comes to free will and agency. That humans can control what happens in the world. Where they are not just passive players like puppets pulled along by biology and physics but can actually intervene are actively change things.
I see spirituality as a consequence of brain meat. So what. Your counter interpretation is not evidence.
There is evidence from a number of sources. Even the idea that spirituality is a consequence of brain meat which is similar to consciousness is nothing but the physical brain is challenged by many scientists like Nagal above who offer good arguements.
If our conscious experience is not real, that what we experience is not a real representation or can reveal reality then we are rejecting a big part of who we are. Materialism would have it that our dreams, experiences, sense of a real self in the world that can change things, is all a delusion designed by evolution to help us survive.