The scientific materialist worldview robs reality of its colour, temperature, smell… and in fact, any conscious experience is removed from reality altogether. This cannot be the most accurate picture of the universe we can come up with. Reality is made of experiences, woven together into an experiential tapestry, that holds things together even when we aren’t looking. Writes Helen Yetter-Chappell. Snow is white. Fire is hot. What could be more obvious? Yet a surprising number of philosophers do not think these things are true in the way that we ordinarily presume.What is it for something to be hot? You know this. You’ve felt heat before. It’s warm, then it’s unpleasant, then it burns. It feels … hot. But when scientists look around, they don’t find the hot feel. What they find is molecules bouncing around rapidly. So scientists (re)define heat as molecular kinetic energy.[relatedVideo id=1935]What is it for something to b…
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