Sure .. but I'll listen to it very carefully, nonetheless. I appreciate your input.Hans Blaster said:OK. I appreciate your response. You may not appreciate mine.
The only point I was trying to make there, is that we can easily see the difference between a 'subjective' recount of someone's experience of seeing blue ... as being completely distinct from scientist's experience when reading a spectral analyzer and seeing a graph portrayed on a screen that peaks in a selected part of the spectrum .. (even where the scales happen to be arbitrarily designated and attributed as being at the 'blue' end of it). The ratios of the Balmer series lines of hydrogen is obviously hardened physics, in both the theoretical and empirical senses.Hans Blaster said:The perception of "blue" is a question of psychology and neurobiology, the measurement of blue light with a spectrograph is only arbitrary in that we arbitrarily set the length scale. (The SI units are based originally on the size of the Earth.) The ratios of the Balmer series lines of hydrogen are not arbitrary, but an objective property of hydrogen Universally.)
The two experiences there, are entirely distinct from eachother, (whilst still being experiences).
.. which is clearly not a supportable conclusion going by simple observations of the contents of, say, physics textbooks.Hans Blaster said:This leaves only two possiblitites: 1. We understand nothing in physics
Hmm ..ok .. if you mean that the physics isn't skewed by any beliefs/'subjective' views the physicist holds, then I'd whole-heartedly agree.Hans Blaster said:or 2. the mind of the physicist is irrelevant. I'm going for the latter.
Clearly we rely, (very much), on their minds in their coming up with say, (for example), the designs of various quantum reality tests.
Ok. Fair enough. Apologies for any non-deliberate misattribution implications I may have created there. (I got too informal).Hans Blaster said:I said nothing of the sort. Minds are thing to be studied by science, for the rest of us the are not of import to the results.
I think I can largely agree there .. I have no idea about what the impacts of any conclusions made in the fields of neurobiology, psychology etc might be into the future.Hans Blaster said:I don't know from realism or not, MIR or MDR, or whatever, but after the consideration I don't see any practical impact to most of science from this question. Cheers.
The point I'm making mostly only impacts the type of silly unpithy debates that rage in these forums .. and not the science done by those doing the hard work.
Somewhere back in this thread I said something about angels dancing on a pin head ... such appears to be our bread and butter in this place, unfortunately ..
Cheers & Rgds.
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