cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-26 hours agoWhat beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?message-squaremessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up165arrow-down1message-squareWhat beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-26 hours agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebizarroland@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·21 hours agoThere’s a part of me that believes that magic/psyonics/spirit whatever intentionally and willfully does not respond to the scientific method. Whatever entity is behind it refuses to be subjected to scrutiny and furthermore refuses to be turned into a machine with an on-off switch. You can have your magic or you can have your proof that magic doesn’t exist but you can’t have proof that magic exists and magic at the same time.
minus-squaremangaskahn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 minutes agoIf something is tested and proven, it falls outside the realm of magic and just becomes normal everyday science or technology. It’s like the saying about alternative medicine. Anything that is proven to work is just called medicine.
There’s a part of me that believes that magic/psyonics/spirit whatever intentionally and willfully does not respond to the scientific method.
Whatever entity is behind it refuses to be subjected to scrutiny and furthermore refuses to be turned into a machine with an on-off switch.
You can have your magic or you can have your proof that magic doesn’t exist but you can’t have proof that magic exists and magic at the same time.
If something is tested and proven, it falls outside the realm of magic and just becomes normal everyday science or technology. It’s like the saying about alternative medicine. Anything that is proven to work is just called medicine.