Originally Posted by
Myst
This sentence of yours is correct.
However.
Your problem is staying open all the time. That's not rational. Scientific thinking is not open like this. Scientific thinking is far more rigorous than this.
What's "scientific thinking"? It's only rigorous because it has been criticized over and over again, and that only creates more rigor.
And being open to criticism is to be open to alternatives, because the criticisms are often something like "Why this and not that?". And in "science", no criticism is too minor or something to be ignored. It has to accept all sorts of criticisms, preferably the ones that can be tested. And of course that is what creates rigor.
Originally Posted by
Myst
"if it's not forbidden by the laws of nature, then it's not impossible" - Right now, our understanding of the laws of biology show that it's impossible. MAYBE, just maybe, we find a way to show that the laws of biology actually allow for changing some things to make this possible, but it is not rational to bet on a MAYBE unsubstantiated by any concrete evidence.
It may or may not be possible, but the point is that any claim being made about the future is going to be baseless conjectures (other than being based on good theories), because we don't know the future and the future is going to be different from the past. Not just about the future, but practically about
anything is going to be a baseless conjecture. Your thoughts about the world, in the here and now, are baseless conjectures generated by your brain.
If all we want to do is to "prove" something, then that's going to be something based on the past, and expecting the future to be a repetition of the past. But that's not what the future actually is.
Originally Posted by
Myst
You do not live in the moment, you keep living in the future of imagining possibilities coming true, but you can only make a rational decision in the moment here and now. That is the only way you can do closure, and have actually rigorous scientific thinking.
Also, you are living in this world of assumptions where different assumptions that are logically irreconcilable with each other as is, coexist for you in your brain. Again, this is not rational. It is not rigorous scientific thinking.
This is also a theory of yours, which is not "based on" anything. Your assumptions about what is or what is not rigorous scientific thinking, or what it should be, or what is real and what is not real, are all theories and conjectures.