A compelling interview of one of FFRF's distinguished honorary directors . . .
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Goldstein: “To say that something matters is to assert that attention is due it, the kind of attention that both recognises and reveals its reality”. “If I say that something doesn’t matter, I’m saying that it’s not worth paying attention to”.
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Her theses seems to be inline with Popper-Deutsch notion that people pursue solutions to problems they find interesting and doing so by searching for good (hard to vary) explanations thru conjecture and criticism leads to objective rapid sustained progress and...
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...the suppression of new knowledge and criticism of bad explanations leads to stagnation and/or extinction. Goldstein seems to be at odds with Popper’s fallibilism here: “But I see the objective dimension to mattering as being grounded in the conditions that we must presume...
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“...in order to pursue a recognisably human life. These conditions have implications, and it’s in those implications that the objective facts about mattering are to be found”.
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Popper’s view is that all knowledge about objective truths are fallible and thus can never be grounded or justified and the implications/deductions of a theory are criticized by our best factual theories as well as other modes of criticism and error correction.
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Goldstein also has this to say about the hard problem of consciousness, “I still think we’ll never be able to solve it—not because consciousness is something mysterious, but because matter is mysterious”.
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This is at odds with Deutsch’s guess that creativity, consciousness etc are mostly “software problems” rather than hardware/matter problems due to the universality of the laws of computation, people are “universal explainers”.
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It's also at odds with "Problems are soluble". An explanation why consciousness cannot possibly be explained no matter the knowledge discovered would have to be provided. Mysterious things are just problems yet to be solved. It's either that or the supernatural is true.
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