so amazing when your magic/energy/occult theory just so happens to be perfectly shaped to avoid any empirical testing whatsoever
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Can we run a study on it?
no, because if you don't believe in it won't give you results.
So can we run a study where we see if believers get different results than nonbelievers?
well no, the effects are personal and hard to predict and rely on individual interpretation.
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It's a big red flag for your worldview if the entirety of it lies just beyond the border of empirical testing, it's like pointing to a ring of dirt just beyond where the mop reaches and going "yes, an organic discovery of a natural structure that has nothing to do with the mop"
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If your theory has any impact on the real world at all, then it should be testable! it's in the domain of testability! It might be really hard to figure out a test, and the test might not be perfect, but it's possible. That which can be cleaned by the mop, should be.
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And it might be really hard or dangerous to *carry out* the test. In principal you can test scientific theories of whatʼs inside a black hole, whatʼs beyond the cosmological event horizon, or quantum mechanics interpretation. In practice, not so much.
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You could say that about bitcoin and lightning network. Just try getting the # of successful payments made per day .
Avg value of a successful payment.
Avg number of paths tried for each successful payment.
# of attempted payments that failed to go through. It's bullshit
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Are not the laws of logic "beyond the border" of empiricism? Your argument doesn't seem universal at all
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EPR was “thought experiment” stated as quantum mechanics paradox by Einstein in 1935
It was FALLIBLE but not TESTABLE until Bell theorem in 1964 provided a theory for how the test could look like
Only in 1972, 1988, 1998, … we got more and more precise physical experiments 🤷🏻♂️
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I agree with this for everything except normative questions (unless a very particular goal is already stipulated) and the hard problem of consciousness.