Reply #158: The leap over solipsism

[Az]

There is a sort of faith in science. It presumes the universe we have before us is relevant.

Science is a method of determing the processes and functions found within this universe(or multiverse). If it turns out we are a brain in a vat science has no means of testing for that within the confines of this universe.

But as we have nothing to suggest we are vatted brains it isn't relevant to the pursuit of science. If anything came along that suggested such a thing we would have to reconsider our methodologies.

Suffice to say that science is the best we seem to have found for examining this universe in a methodological way. It works. If something better comes along we should switch to it. If we find out we are brains in vats then we have a whole new ballgame.