I believe in some things some might call "pseudoscientific bullshit", yet I'd like to think I'm thoughtful about it.
@Ulfra_Wolfe same, although I feel that the word "believe" is somewhat stretched here. Merely because I find value in a concept doesn't mean I "believe" in it, in the conventionally understood way.
@Ulfra_Wolfe Take, for example, my growing curiosity about devising a personal alchemy. One person's "pseudoscience" is another person's deeply felt mythology--at long as it's acknowledged AS mythology, and not as a statement about the nature of physical reality.
@kara_dreamer @Ulfra_Wolfe
Yeah, I've been building an entire personal woo system that on the surface resembles psuedoscience. So much of my research involved other "theories" that were often direct refutations of current science in favor of dictating a different physics.
Only difference with mine is that I'm not trying to do that. :-)
I'd rather build a fiction that includes my alternate universe physics (and metaphysics), and practice that as my own truth.
@emanate @Ulfra_Wolfe I was trying to think of a hypothetical example of a "pseudoscience" or old, refuted scientific model that could nevertheless be reimagined as a source of metaphysical meaning...I can just about glimpse, for example, using the long-discredited phlogiston model as a way to assign magickal meaning to substances.
@kara_dreamer @Ulfra_Wolfe Mine's aether. In the original sense, from early models of electricity, it was the proposed medium that light and electric particles traveled through.
Basis in science history, spun off into broader stroke: aether is the 4th dimension (spatially, not counting time), explains magnetism, electrons leave traces in it. Thoughts are electronic, so thoughts and idea leave more complex traces...etc.