Timeline for If we encounter what appears to be an advanced extraterrestrial technological device, would the claim that it was designed be falsifiable?
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| Jun 7, 2023 at 18:46 | comment | added | causative♦ | The universe is an "individual object," and the laws of physics are properties of it, and thus by your reasoning the scientific method wouldn't apply to the universe. The only (relevant) difference between the universe and a small object is scale. Bayesian inference applies equally well to objects of any scale. | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 18:35 | comment | added | CriglCragl | This misrepresents science. Medical diagnosis is absolutely science - it's among the oldest parts of it. Which is to say, making a hypothesis & testing it about a specific instance. There is a perennial problem with 'physicsisation' of science, & lack of knowledge about how much methods vary among different sciences. It seems remarkable you mention finding a clock, but not the Blind Watchmaker version of the argument-by-design. The grue thing implies never gaining a ground-up picture of causal processes, but science aims at that, not just taking colours for granted, before or after time t. | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 19:56 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 6, 2023 at 16:58 | history | edited | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2023 at 14:54 | history | answered | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |