I am saying that to demarcate woo from non-woo using the criterion of “working” you need a criterion of working that isn’ta subjective gut feeling. You need to solve the problem of formalising the empirical justification of empiricism.
All right. How about this: something “works” if it is independently replicable and reliably results in statistically significant deviations from the null result.
Reliable results of what? Is there anything that reliably indicates realism? If someone says that your reliable resultsare just accurate predictions of subjective experience, how do you counter them? And does your method tell you what you should be doing , or just what experiences to passively expect?
I… really don’t see how this has anything to do with the discussion, unless you’re calling science woo.
...Are you calling science woo?
I am saying that to demarcate woo from non-woo using the criterion of “working” you need a criterion of working that isn’ta subjective gut feeling. You need to solve the problem of formalising the empirical justification of empiricism.
All right. How about this: something “works” if it is independently replicable and reliably results in statistically significant deviations from the null result.
Reliable results of what? Is there anything that reliably indicates realism? If someone says that your reliable resultsare just accurate predictions of subjective experience, how do you counter them? And does your method tell you what you should be doing , or just what experiences to passively expect?