12-03-2021, 03:10 PM
Putting your hand in a fire is personal experience. The outcome is actually somewhat subjective, and has different contextual levels. You can look at it from a purely materialist view as a chain of circumstances leading to pain and injury. Or associate a higher level context involving fear and learning, and deeper meanings. But what happens when that basic convention is broken? Because it can be (miracle) or will be (transmutation).
Data is not absolute, it is selected, everything is, because you cannot select/measure everything at once, you are choosing what to focus on and introduce bias into that seeking. Then there is interpretation, which in turn re-informs the selection process, creating a feedback loop, or law of attraction.
If you want a mundane 3d example, you cannot know what true "infection rates" are, because the data is self reported, I.e. only if I choose to get tested, and if the testing is accurate, and if the reporting is accurate....then I match that incomplete data set to an interpretation of what exactly is the cause of an illness....is it specifically only from a pathogen we are biased to look for, or is it from a litany of pre-existing health problems? Now I do not want to debate the above, because it is inherently impossible to properly correlate the relationships, because it is impossible to do in 3d, hence the metaphysical position that everything is personalized catalyst in the end. If you believe data=truth=reality, then there's not much more we can discuss. This is the schism, this grasping onto the illusions of the "material" world.
Data is not absolute, it is selected, everything is, because you cannot select/measure everything at once, you are choosing what to focus on and introduce bias into that seeking. Then there is interpretation, which in turn re-informs the selection process, creating a feedback loop, or law of attraction.
If you want a mundane 3d example, you cannot know what true "infection rates" are, because the data is self reported, I.e. only if I choose to get tested, and if the testing is accurate, and if the reporting is accurate....then I match that incomplete data set to an interpretation of what exactly is the cause of an illness....is it specifically only from a pathogen we are biased to look for, or is it from a litany of pre-existing health problems? Now I do not want to debate the above, because it is inherently impossible to properly correlate the relationships, because it is impossible to do in 3d, hence the metaphysical position that everything is personalized catalyst in the end. If you believe data=truth=reality, then there's not much more we can discuss. This is the schism, this grasping onto the illusions of the "material" world.