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I find it funny that a blogpost claiming to be about the “scientific method” spends 4000 words to try to convince its readers of a wordplay, using analogies and metaphors.

(Yes “consciousness is an illusion” is a wordplay. If you claim it’s a scientific theory, then what does it predict?)



> (Yes “consciousness is an illusion” is a wordplay. If you claim it’s a scientific theory, then what does it predict?)

Here's the start of what you're looking for:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116933119#fig01


One interesting phenomenon Maya (~consciousness is an illusion) could explain is the perceived (by themselves and others, the internet is absolutely full of artifacts of it) omniscience of scientists, despite the letter of science providing all that is needed to logically protect one from such illusory beliefs.


Read the whole of his "science" series. You're going to be delighted to find out that he's really fond of analogies, golfing being a particularly fitting one.




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