Consciousness and the Limits of Science – Robert Lawrence Kuhn

„Every theory that is dualist, panpsychist or idealist agrees that we can study the biological facets of consciousness by studying the brain – but they all claim this will never lead to a complete understanding. In other words, there are limits to how far the scientific method can take us.“

Robert Lawrence KuhnRobert Lawrence Kuhn explores consciousness, the limits of scientific methods, and open questions between the brain and philosophy.
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Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an American public intellectual, investment banker, and commentator on China.

The quote reflects on the limits of scientific explanations of consciousness and contrasts biological, philosophical, and epistemological questions.


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Robert Lawrence Kuhn (born 1944) is an American public intellectual, investment banker, author, and television producer. His work focuses particularly on China, science, and philosophy. He is the creator of the PBS series “Closer to Truth.”

Robert Lawrence Kuhn quote about the scientific method and non-physical theoriesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I like to distinguish between the scientific method, which is applied to all materialistic theories. The scientific method is one of observation or experimentation, repeatability, falsification, the repeatability by different techniques of different labs, or prediction and results. It's a scientific method. I say that if it's a non-physical theory, or the theory has any aspect of non-physicalism to it, it doesn't have to be all, any aspect invalidates, to some degree invalidates, the scientific method as I just described from being applicable. And I think there's a tendency in some theories that have some non-physical aspect to try to show their legitimacy by applying the scientific method... I think that's a false desire, because once you're non-physical you are invalidating, to one degree or another, the scientific method. Maybe not totally, but in some degree." Robert Lawrence Kuhn
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"The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature, if we want to master our physical surroundings, then we must use all ideas, all methods, and not just a small selection of them." Paul Feyerabend
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"The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference." Arthur Eddington
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