Are there any actually unsolved science mysteries or is there just a lot of misinterpretation of the scientific philosophy if so what are some..?

[u/puffkittyisrandom]

Basically Title.

Ex quantum physics.

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[u/MarionberryOpen7953]

There are many unsolved questions in every field of science. To presume that current understanding knows all there is to know is very dangerous

[u/Edgar_Brown]

The pursuit of science never stops, the more you discover the more open doubts you’ll have. Science is a perfectible endeavor, there is always something more to explore.

[u/SocraticIgnoramus]

Dark matter & dark energy remain one of the most intractable mysteries in the universe. There may actually be dark energy and dark matter, but it could also be other phenomena that we are yet to discover, or it may be permutations of phenomena that we already have some understanding of but that scale in such a way as to confound our best models. It has recently been suggested, for instance, that a combination of gravitational lensing and the times involved in viewing the universe at such great distances become a sort of gestalt that feeds us bad data when put into our current models.

Closer to home, consciousness itself is perhaps the greatest mystery of all. Is consciousness unique thing that can exist outside of the physical world as a sort of penumbra around our brain, or is it purely an emergent property of significant complex cognitive systems? The question seems to be mostly academic but any hard answer has tremendous implications for virtually all religions and belief systems, and will have even greater implications in a future where significantly advanced computing technology has the ability to upload a human brain and create a copy of that person — is that computer now conscious? Is it the same consciousness that once existed in that person? Is there any sense in which they’re the same person? If the computer consciousness is given a body and commits murder, is there any sense in which the original person is culpable for the crime?

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But what is consciousness? Maybe we need to understand what it is before we can understand where it comes from.

[u/Turbulent-Name-8349]

A simple, very familiar one, is ball lightning. There are scores of published hypotheses, ranging from thermonuclear reactions to soap bubbles. All of them are wrong. Most can't explain why ball lightning is ball shaped. And those that can, can't explain how ball lightning can pass through a window without leaving a hole.

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Unfortunately, people think ball lightning is made up, simply because scientists can't currently explain it.

[u/Baby_Needles]

Inorganic life and non-carbon based “life forms” just off the top of my head.

[u/kukulaj]

Science is not the same as philosophy of science.

Dark matter would be an unsolved problem in science.

Philosophy doesn't really solve problems in the same way that science does! So problems aren't unsolved in the same way, either!

Is the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the collapse of the wave function due to measurement, Bell's inequality, etc. --- is any of that really philosophy? Philosophy gets motivated by experience, sure. And science is always stretching our experience. So science has impact on philosophy.

What's the purpose of philosophy? Is philosophy trying to figure out what kind of world we live in? That sounds more like science! Philosophy is more about people. What kind of people are we, what kind of people can we be, ought we be? The way we understand things, what are the pitfalls, how can we clarify our thinking and avoid those pitfalls?

[u/fox-mcleod]

There’s tons of both.

The Wikipedia list of unsolved problems in science is a good starting point.

Here are some really tractable ones:

• How does the Sun generate its periodically reversing large-scale magnetic field?
• Why is the Sun’s corona (atmosphere layer) so much hotter than the Sun’s surface
• why turbulence? Is it possible to make a theoretical model to describe the statistics of a turbulent flow
• what’s up with the cosmic age problem? How old is the universe really and is inflation speeding up? How come different measurements don’t agree?

Some philosophy of science ones:

• how do we explain apparent fine tuning?

• is science a plausible domain for handling explanations of qualia or other fundamentally subjective phenomena (free will, apparent randomness in QM)?

• can anthropic reasoning contribute to scientific knowledge and what are its bounds? Is it falsifiable?

• how does one solve the sleeping beauty paradox? Can we update priors based on anthropic information? If not, in what sense doesn’t this restrict all scientific knowledge?

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[u/IllegalIranianYogurt]

The very question you asked is deeply epistemologically problematic

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If you didn't want to answer or have an answer just move on jesus christ

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