Why do scientists?

Question

why do you think that scientist find it difficult to deal with the mind-body question that has seemed so troublesome in their conception of reality?

Answer 1

Scientists are accepting the fact that there is a higher power that does exists. They are seeing this more and more all the time.

Answer 2

I don't think scientists find it difficult to accept dealing with the mind-body question, they may be reluctant about accepting undocumented assertions, and they may have no patience for chit-chats unless chit-chats are a subject of their study, and they may even be reluctant to consider mind and body separately except for the technical matters of some particular study.

Scientists want professionally to know, and they always work for more understanding about the world, or about some particular aspect of the world, and about the mysterious mind-body question, about the exploration of the body, and about the exploration of consciousness, or soul if you like.

A scientist is primarily a philosopher, as his scholarly work is engaged in trying to perceive the nature and potentiality of things he works with. A scientist may be seen as a technician when he has had to specialize in some subject where his work may be about the technicalities of that subject. But a scientist would not be a scientist without a sincere and even bright philosophical approach, without the scholarly idea of a teleology behind the world, behind all that which appears to our senses.

Answer 3

Good news is that mind-body medicine is quickly becoming a booming research interest of many doctors and researchers.

Bad news is that science (most not all) is based on materialistic (everything is matter) assumptions. So, the mind is considered nothing but an illusion that the brain (physical matter) produces. Thus, mind is non material and not dealt with in science.
Thankfully this is not true in quantum physics, some psychology, and of course philosophy. Wilder Penfield when he was alive was the best brain surgeon of his day and he acknowledged that while he knew everything there was to know (at the time) about the brain he knew nothing about the mind.
Many people trained in classical physics (including Albert Einstein) found it impossible to accept (now verified by experiments) the ideas of quantum physics because it defied what they had learned.

Michael John Weaver, M.S.

Answer 4

Um, they don't. Most scientists don't even care. Which kind of scientists are you referring to? Have you read any papers from these scientists where they seem to have a difficult time grasping the idea you've mentioned?

Answer 5

All science is based on facts. Until they can find a proven fact to figgure out how it works, they will always have trouble for it.

Answer 6

Because it doesn't stand up to the cold strutiny of objective observation and repetitive testing. Anecdotal evidence is not objective...sorry.

Answer 7

they need empirical evidence to prove their theories. I thinks, and feelings dont work.

Answer 8

ok we all have them ur growing duh