Derren Brown Interview (3/6) - Richard Dawkins

tornado, the more you speak, the more it shows how little you know about and respect science. A little information is a dangerous thing. A tip: study the scientific method in depth, study what makes a theory vs a law vs a fact. And just because people are passionate about a method doesn't make it a religion.

WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT

That's good enough. :) One can get some insight into the trick that Derren performed.

Funny how people rather put the vote down as opposed to answering properly -
if you want to read my comments anyway, you can still see them if you press "reply".
There seems to be a dangerous cult developing around the Dawkins way of thinking, and seeing how people defend it, it's exactly as passionate as other people would defend catholicism -
and what's behind it is not a search for "truth" but an experience of spirituality as something limiting intellectual and personal freedom.

if that's how you see perception's place in science, I hope you understood between then and now that perception is studied extensively in science...

Everything is "studied" in science.
In truth science can't explain the simplest thing completely or without contradiction.
We all learn science in school by calculating our way through some equations and then think "that's it".
I recommend reading Paul Feyerabend.
E.G. your consciousness has a bit rate of 15-50 bits a second, depending on the study.
Now look around and tell me if you see any bits...
But as long as there is a little demo gimmick out there, people will believe in science.

You're substituting ideas here, because conciousness has a "bit rate" it doesn't mean you see it.
People should believe in science and scientific methodology, because it provides a lot of propositions with evidence to prove or disprove it.

I think all science is is one giant substitution...
I think that science is a good idea too, but it's also easy to blind people with it for what's already evident without science...
Science is in many ways a religion too, unfortunately.

Um...no?
Science doesn't blind people, science is the result of people researching endlessly to find reasonable and rational explanation of natural phenomena. And when I see a result of research, I'd have my own opinion and say, this is consistent with what I observed or not, if not I'll find a way to make further observation and not say, oh this is bs.
Religion on the other hand, insist on belief without reason or without evidence...how on earth science is in many ways religion?

Spirituality as such shouldn't ask you to believe something that seems utterly irrational to you... that would be called "dogmatism"... a property of quite a few "religions" out there - but not only religions, also societal systems such as communism, capitalism, scientificism etc.
You seem to have fallen already for the scientific dogmatism... that things that can't be explained consistently do not exist or can be explained at some point -
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