Metaphysics Reborn as a Field of Scientific Endeavour

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN 2012 but not posted till 2025.

This life is not just physics and biology. 

It is also experiential and social. Any reduction or contempt for this meta-reality (metaphysics) prevents us studying how we are creative and ethical. When we create or make a moral choice it feels real because it is real. Being real, it has real-world effects apart from neuronal firing. Ignoring these effects is dangerous, really dangerous—just as ignoring a safe falling onto your head is dangerous. On the other hand, you can ignore your neurons entirely: there will not be the tiniest difference to what happens. 

If you have a scientific bent, as I do, then you will believe that anything that is real can and should be studied.  I call this meta-reality: psychosocial reality.

Grasping personal psychosocial reality is tricky because More...