https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/ … (esp. the bit about the flytraps)
Yes; that’s probably a helpful correction! It’s tricky because “metaphysics” is vague. Besides the holistic chakra balancing stuff, there’s a standard STEM dismissal of any uncomfortable conceptual discussion, taking metaphysics = bullshit.
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More like conceptual discussion that they don't like = bullshit. But if it is about how everything is made of quarks, then you are good. It's not that they don't engage with metaphysics, it's that they assume a metaphysics and can't question it, so everything else is bullshit.
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Yes, right, exactly! There’s a taken-for-granted default metaphysics, and anything that isn’t that is “philosophical bullshit.”
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In fact “philosophy” is used dismissively the same way. And that’s not altogether wrong!
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