Information and consciousness are fundamental. Materialism has been falsified (technically, by quantum physicists)
Not necessarily; but there are evolutionary-theory-based micropredictions that are falsifiable. https://twitter.com/Petra_Didymus/status/899500067907829760 …
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It's not "lol" worthy :) The dispute about falsifiability is something Popper entertained. As David Deutsch wrote in 2011:pic.twitter.com/1Bvn3L5AZk
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Of course it could be falsified; if the fossil record showed no change in species from earliest times to now, for example.
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What separates micro- from macropredictions? And what macropredictions would you claim are unfalsifiable?
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You can in fact prove key evolutionary principles with mathematics (and validate via computer simulation)
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what about the trace of evolution in DNA?
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Then micropredictions would be the method (as usual) through which the theory can be falsified. It's a bit of a semantic issue.
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Same as the heliocentric model, really: you can't "prove" that Earth goes around the Sun, but it yields verifiable implications.
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Is this basically saying that the "big picture" is settled science, but the fine detail and minutia of implications are still up for debate?
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