If the scientific method cannot help us to comprehend reality, then we have no means to comprehend reality, and your ideas, my ideas, Lessans's ideas, Newton's ideas, and everyone else's ideas are ALL pure nonsense.
Rejecting science is the nuclear option; It destroys the ideas you don't like, but it destroys the ideas you do like too - and just as comprehensively.
You can certainly decide to adopt a nihilist philosophy that avoids the conclusion that we see only the past, by destroying all ability to conclude anything about anything. But if you do, you also abdicate the right to assert that your alternative ideas have the slightest validity.
I think this bears belaboring what the scientific method is:
1. Have an idea.
2. Test whether that idea is true.
3. Adjust idea...
4. Go-to 2.
It's super simple. It's literally just "test your ideas", to reduce it all the way to child-speak.
To test you need a model that can be tested. peacegirl’s author doesn’t have one.
Yeah, it's pretty apparent that "light enters eyes, MAGIC HAPPENS, you know the thing is there now" is insufficient as a model.
At some point it morphed into his second discovery, which Pood wanted all along.
Well it's pretty hilarious he managed to pry it out of you. You deposed yourself and the author thoroughly.
I made some initial observations near the beginning of the thread until it became clear that you were here to preach, but the best way to depose a preacher is almost always to get them banging their drum about the flat earth or whatever.
There are easier ways to market this book than to be here... [But buy it now for 10bux]
The fact is, there are a lot of people that would seek to make a quick buck marketing a feel-good book talking about the great work.
Every 2-bit charlatan and crook and wannabe prophet is going to want to use the fact that everyone shares a desire for "the great work" to push their narrow vision of it and aggrandize themselves. Some people latch onto that as sycophants, because that was the whole point for most such people.
Most such people, however, take this approach because they are too weak-willed, weak-armed, or weak-brained to make any progress towards actually building it, or to understand what it is that we need to build. We do need leadership... But it's not by the guy sitting on his ass and trying to make money selling a religion that shits on the process of rigorous doubt, especially one that's
beyond eye-lasers.
I would recommend you find a strange mirror that exists in this world, whose name is Ion. Look deep into this mirror made of words ostensibly spoken by Socrates and question who in this play you have been.
