Re:And this is why... (Score 3, Insightful)

Wow, that's actually a very cool vid. Thanks for sharing.

But it doesn't apply at all to my comment. Biologists study fantastically complex systems, while neuroscientists and the like study something even more complex: emergent properties of a sophisticated network of neurons that are by themselves complex.

Physicists, on the other hand, are reductionists and try to study Nature at the most fundamental level possible, attempting to control for as many externalities as physically possible. There is not one real physicist in the world who would claim they don't believe Maxwell's equations describe electromagnetic radiation or that fermions don't have to form antisymmetric wavefunctions. There are certainly open questions (otherwise, why the LHC?), but to say we "can't agree on the most basic aspects of our science "is preposterous.

Some science is known with great accuracy (i.e. the mass or charge of the electron, Planck's constant, how fat your Mom is....oh snap! ;) and these facts are not disputed. You can't compare the certainty and universal acceptance of such fundamental knowledge to the hard-to-define and fantastic complexity of human reasoning and the brain.

Nice try, though.