It seems that doubting that we have observations would cause us to doubt physics, wouldn’t it? Since physics-the-discipline is about making, recording, communicating, and explaining observations.
Why think we’re in a physical world if our observations that seem to suggest we are are illusory?
This is kind of like if the people saying we live in a material world arrived at these theories through their heaven-revelations, and can only explain the epistemic justification for belief in a material world by positing heaven. Seems odd to think heaven doesn’t exist in this circumstance.
(Note, personally I lean towards supervenient neutral monism: direct observation and physical theorizing are different modalities for interacting with the same substance, and mental properties supervene on physical ones in a currently-unknown way. Physics doesn’t rule out observation, in fact it depends on it, while itself being a limited modality, such that it is unsurprising if you couldn’t get all modalities through the physical-theorizing modality. This view seems non-contradictory, though incomplete.)
It seems that doubting that we have observations would cause us to doubt physics, wouldn’t it? Since physics-the-discipline is about making, recording, communicating, and explaining observations.
Why think we’re in a physical world if our observations that seem to suggest we are are illusory?
This is kind of like if the people saying we live in a material world arrived at these theories through their heaven-revelations, and can only explain the epistemic justification for belief in a material world by positing heaven. Seems odd to think heaven doesn’t exist in this circumstance.
(Note, personally I lean towards supervenient neutral monism: direct observation and physical theorizing are different modalities for interacting with the same substance, and mental properties supervene on physical ones in a currently-unknown way. Physics doesn’t rule out observation, in fact it depends on it, while itself being a limited modality, such that it is unsurprising if you couldn’t get all modalities through the physical-theorizing modality. This view seems non-contradictory, though incomplete.)