[MD] MD Quality, DQ and SQ

[Scott Roberts]

Ian,

Ian said:
Clearly I cannot yet suspend disbelief in the FM-W view, but the point
of this approach is evolutionary - making small leaps from where one
already is.

Scott:
This sounds anti-Kuhnian of you. I see it the situation as one of noticing 
anomalies, until one realizes that all these anomalies arise from "where one 
already is", and so requiring a major leap -- in this case, from thinking of 
consciousness as emerging in space and time to thinking of space and time as 
creations of consciousness, which is a major leap.

Ian said:
I still says when you say "science" you mean good old fashioned
objective logical positivism type science. I still says this is just
linguistic.

Scott:
I'm not sure where you got that impression. I see science as the study of 
that which can be studied through building models and testing them (that is, 
the models should provide predictions). Around that there is metaphysical 
and mathematical creativity, but the line between them is fuzzy (quantum 
gravity theories are mostly mathematical exercises, pondering the quantum 
measurement problem is mostly metaphysics).

- Scott