-just more hope and faith... -backward looking with eyes open to history does not contravene fact that forward looking into the future is blind... --unless Weinberg a clairvoyant he simply makes unprovable predictions that he touts as proofs for whatever he posits... -he builds a house of cards...
Given that history, Weinberg's doesn't seem to be 'blind faith' at all, but rather a reasonable take on what future investigation might show.-just more hope and faith... -backward looking with eyes open to history does not contravene fact that forward looking into the future is blind... --unless Weinberg a clairvoyant he simply makes unprovable predictions that he touts as proofs for whatever he posits... -he builds a house of cards...
If you're making the philosophical point that induction is always unsupported, and that it's not reasonable to even suppose that the Earth will continue to rotate and bring the Sun back into view tomorrow morning, then you're using a definition of 'reasonable' that's so strict that it leads to solipsism. I wouldn't care to follow you there. On any reasonable view of what 'reasonable' means, the remarkable successes of scientific investigation over the last 400 years do in fact make it not unreasonable to hope (and expect) that consciousness, too, will yield up some of its secrets as we go forward.
The scientific 'house of cards' is sturdily constructed. One refuses to live in it at one's own peril.