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Old 21-November-2008, 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Elitecamper View Post
But there is also a science that is internal. That is the science of the consciousness. It is a science too as it is not based on beliefs but on direct experience.
That is by definition not scientific. Personal direct experience is non-verifiable, non-repeatable, not predictive, and not falsifiable. Call it 'experience', 'worldview', 'new age', 'way of thinking', 'new paradigm' or whatever you want, but it's not science.
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