Philosopher of Science Reacts to Slavoj Žižek

Analytical and empirical philosophers tend to be averse to speculative thinkers like Slavoj Žižek, but Dr Vlasta Sikimić had the epistemic flexibility to entertain Žižekian insights.
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[@mattd8725]

Zizek doesn't take the position that "science is just a narrative" and that "reality is whatever we make it with our words". Recently, he uses the example of computer games that in them the world is somehow "unfinished" in that there are low resolution places where we can't go and that the "unfinished world" is a good way to think about reality.

[@RahulSam]

Absolutely agreed here. He frequently comments on the Lacanian notion that the Real touches science, and this isn't a mere narrative. Also, your comment touches on his notion of ontological incompleteness.

[@harmpwns]

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[@RahulSam]

Thanks for the supportive comment, mate! Cheers!

[@Achrononmaster]

@3:50 maybe, maybe science is "the best we've got". But you also need to consider in modern times with so many advances and incredible expertise _most_ of what passes for "science" is received knowledge, so the source is an authority, not _scientific _*_science_* per se. Which implies there is a spiritual component that is necessary, since one must be able to trust the authority, without the quality of trust there is corrosion and a blight on science. The "best we've got" is, imho, the spiritual (love, compassion, kindness, honesty, wisdom, justice, &c). Science is the greatest complement to a spiritual susceptibility.

[@RahulSam]

This is indeed a good and more humanistic way of looking at it.

[@furkan6402]

inteeeeeresting. thums up.

[@RahulSam]

Thank you, my friend!

[@Ludicanti]

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[@DerekSpeareDSD]

i don't really know anything, but here's my comment: how can we think that capitalism doesn't cultivate and manage all knowledge in order to benefit and perpetuate itself when all human knowledge heretofore was controlled by whatever system that had power over humanity at any time in our history? I mean, whatever dominant belief system that has power is the one that establishes whatever "truth" happens to be.

[@RahulSam]

Excellent point! In fact, Žižek would totally agree with you. One of his crucial Lacanian insights is that we cannot step outside of ideology in the naive "red-pilled" sense, but rather, the first step to emancipation is to realise how ideology itself formulates our reality and isn't a mere false consciousness, so to speak.

[@thinkingcitizen]

great chat, but you didn't have to go so hard on pronouncing the man's last name

[@RahulSam]

Ah haha... fair criticism, my friend! Pronunciation isn't my strong suit.