I don't think that makes much sense. Any creative act cannot be reproducible, due to it's very nature.Well, let me rephrase myself here... First-hand experience is a good start, but it does need to be verifiable and reproducible.
Reproduction is by definition the contrary/complement to creation, so by requiring reproducibility, you exclude creativity.
I think this reproducibility demand is just a capitalist flaw. With handicraft everything is somehow creative. But those in power do not want to do manual work themselves, they want to tell other what to do and then just count the money - and therefore one needs reproducibility.
Take the very existence of whales - most people only know about whales from books like Moby Dick and accounts of people who have actually seen whales in person. But to see the whales in person is actually one hell of an undertaking - you gotta know how to get to a good spot, have a good camera, etc. Fortunately, the experience is reproducible, there are commercial tours that advertise that kind of experience on the Internet - pay for the ticket, show up at the harbor, board the boat... and come back with tales of having seen a fish that is bigger than your house.
Exactly, here again: this needs to be reproducible so that one can make a business of it and earn money.
I for my part never had dealings with whales, and also I don't want to pay for tourist stuff. I always thought it much better to be on the side of those who get paid than of those who pay; not because of the money, but because then you are with those who create and shape the experience, not with those who merely get it fed and consume it.
So, if I were interested in whales, I would try to live with people who are naturally dealing with them.
Well, not really. More important is, it creates proof.Believing in your own experience is great, nothing wrong with that. It creates positive memories for you.
Example: on Sep 11, 2001 was an event to redesign the New York skyline. Since I got notice to prep for evac, six hours beforehand, from my superiors (due to non-expendable), I can know for certain that this was organized upstream.
Absolutely. There is also limited reward, so why should there be more than limited value?In your case, a speedy recovery for you and your loved ones. Thing is: That is of limited value beyond the group that you and your loved ones belong to.
Absolutely. As this is a creative act, it is just not possible to repeat it in the same way elsewhere.Just because the group recovered, there's no guarantee that a different group will recover with the same extent of success.
But, You say, science should describe the nature of our world. How can it do that, when by paradigma it excludes all creative acts already beforehand?
What makes You think there is an interest in "successful recovery"? Wouldn't that be stupid from a business view? Wouldn't it be more feasible to use that fine-grained statistical data to target for improved illness, so that more medicine can be sold and more profits being made?And mainstream medical establishment, with its ability to verify treatments as reliable (or not), moves the needle of probability of successful recovery from 50% to like 90-95%... Not to mention that in the mainstream medical establishments, information gets curated and organized to a much greater extent than faith-based healing.
Also, concerning statistical data in general, we often had this discussion here with harddisk failure rates, and it was shown that for individual cases the statistical data is mostly useless - only if you have a large set of entities it gets relevant.
So this medical data is mainly of interest for owners of a great number of people: with these tools they can optimise how much their people should be ill and buy medicine, and how much they should be healthy and buy other things, in order to over-all optimize economic figures.
And how would You pinpoint that difference in reality?I think that 'psychological warfare' is inaccurate here - it's more about using propaganda to affect morale and motivation of people, rather than merely changing their minds about something.
Example: Germany has a government owned broadcast. Payment for this system is extorted from the people with the help of a special law (alongside with many well paid positions for renowned political supporters).
If you look into wikipedia, you find a lot of blabla about democracy, but no information about how this radio service originally came into existence.
But if you know, before the current German government was Nazi dictatorship. And they had already a public broadcast: Goebbels propaganda radio. When you look up that one in wikipedia, you find that in 1945 that radio service was taken over by the US-american office for psychological warfare. (There is no notion that this ever changed.)
Yes, it appears difficult - because people have become very decadent and unwilling to leave their comfort zone (which usually is sitting somewhere and staring onto some gadget).And first-hand experience - sometimes, it's just difficult to obtain. You gonna blow your money on a ticket to Hawaii just to see whales in person, or are you content with reading about whales and watching them on Youtube?
If I were interested in whales, I would not go for whalewatching tourist parties; I would rather see to get real first-hand experience. like living a while with the Inuit, or getting onto a Russian exploration vessel.
I don't. Some countries might want to have a different kind of brainwash than the one wikipedia presents.Also, some countries have actually prohibited access to Wikipedia, and implemented firewalls to enforce that - I wonder why?
Sadly, I never ever did any gaming. But I perceive a trend that things which people are too ignorant to really look into, do nevertheless appear in show&play contexts like fantasy, LARP, or gaming.The way I see it, faith-based healing is popular in gaming (because it's easy to implement as game code), but that does not translate very well to reality.
This is not only true with PSI/magick/healing, but also with much more hard-core stuff like e.g. space travel.
Example: as it seems, there are now engines that could be run from a nuclear power plant and that might allow us to go beyond Jupiter. But the guy who invented it has to build it on his own in the garage, as nobody seems interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field_oscillating_amplified_thruster
As it seems, the general interest in spaceflight is now reduced to making money by hauling satellites into orbit which then can be used to make money by spilling propaganda down onto the people. Or something along that line.
Some things cannot be bought, and some things cannot be read in books.It's hard to trust a book written by a faith-based healer - what works for one practitioner may turn out to be deadly in the hands of another, with no good way to really verify and reproduce what happened.
As I said, it is now all only about staying in the comfort zone and doing nothing, with lots of feeble excuses.