Comment by xnfcxnr
8 hours ago
i know the sun shows up every day and i know if i go inside my basement i dont get a tan. do i understand the sun?
8 hours ago
i know the sun shows up every day and i know if i go inside my basement i dont get a tan. do i understand the sun?
Some schools of the philosophy of science would argue that you do. However you are describing is a very different acquisition of knowledge then what scientists did when developing SSRI medicine. We had to:
1. take pictures of brain activity under different conditions to see which regions were active during different moods,
2. sacrifice a bunch of mice to see which neuro-chemical activated which neurons,
3. predict that inhibiting the re-uptake of a specific neuro-chemical would activate that region,
4. predict that activating that region would decrease the level of depression
In your solar example you would have discovered melanin and its relation to your skin tone, and you would have studied the effects ultra-violate radiation has on your melanin levels. Then you would have predicted that staying out of the sun will not give you a tan.