I wouldn’t want to discuss specifics on his work on this forum, but his method of combining subjective report with experimental objective data seems like a fair attempt to bridge a gap that mainline physical science doesn’t address. The threads about recent brain scans seem to be along this line but aren’t getting to the crux of the matter. The physical scientists such as Penrose are missing the point, I believe. Should subjective report and objective data be combined, or would this no longer be considered scientific?
Hey, I’m the resident UFO something or other hereon so if I say a UFO thread can have interesting sidebars, tough tacos to those who disagree! LOL.
My Dissertation chairman was a brilliant Mormon. He was happy with my using both a phenomenological and an empirical approach.
I certainly think both have a place.
KNOWING one’s spouse on honeymoon night
HAD BETTER BE after the Hebrews instead of after the Greeks if one wants the spouse to be around the 2nd night and one’s self to not be in jail for murder!
There’s a time for minute dissection and a time for holistic, immersed perspective.
And, then, there’s the whole silly notion that
there IS
such a thing as OBJECTIVE in the first place.
Even quantum physics seems to say no, there isn’t.