Then again, JS has clarified his point a little, and it does seem like a point worth making.
…the kind of naturalistic worldview that most
materialists embrace, and the scientific methodology that goes with it,
rules out of court my kind of experience as a datum to be explained.
Therefore, if my kinds of experiences do exist, and if they also have
naturalistic explanations, they’re never going to be discovered, because the
“it must be a coincidence because it could be a coincidence” response or the
“ah but the testimony is necessarily suspect” response are both
unfalsifiable.
Again, I thought that was common knowledge – but maybe I was wrong to think that. I thought it was common knowledge that … Read the rest