/sci/ - Science & Math

>My response to the posts in this thread and reliable evidence to justify ones claims

The human condition traps us between the two options: infinite and finite.

We cannot accept things with an end. If I say there is this biggest number ever, you will rebel and find the next one. If I say you die and then it's nothing, you rebel. If I say the universe came out of nothing or is heading towards nothing, it sounds absolutely impossible.

At the same time, the thought that infinite possibilities are real, beyond space and time, beyond imagination and sensoral response, we rebel just as well. The part turns out to be bigger than the whole, the ending is the middle of the beggining, anything can happen and will happen and is happening is a frightening thought.

So, we create models, simple models that are there just to hold this burden. "My dad knows it all, I'm just a child". "Humans don't know stuff, only God knows his plans for the universe". "I cannot feel the universe, so I'll try and understand it rationally". Abstractions, states of mind, that's all.

>on topic
On any level involving whole brains: free will exists.
On any level below whole brains: free will is n/a.
Why?
Because WE ARE OUR BRAINS!!!
If you go below the level of the self, you can't expect concepts that only emerge with the self to apply.
It's like saying "evolution doesn't exist (on a biological level) because when you look at the level of DNA it's just chemistry". Of course the concept of evolution doesn't apply to individual atoms in DNA, it only emerges at a higher level of complexity.

Science is a philosophy based on the foundational principles of empiricism and scientific determinism.

Within that philosophy is the scientific method, which is a tool, that with those two assumptions, should yield valid results about the world.

Then often times when people refer to 'science' would they also refer to the mountain of knowledge that exists within this philosophical framework that the scientific method has validated?