Critique of the Mind-Body Problem
Imagine, dear readers, physics without experiments or measurements. Actually, you don't have to use your imagination because it already happened. It looked, at best, like Aristotle: “heavier things fall faster,” “the earth is at the center of the universe and planets move around it in regular circles;” and in the great majority of cases it was just a collection of flat-earth folk superstitions indistinguishable from mythology.
In fact, the ancient Greeks already had access to experimental data in the form of Babylonian astrological measurements, but for the purpose of the little story that follows we'll pretend those were all destroyed by Murshili I in the sack of Babylon and at any rate not accessible from the steamy setting to which I hereby invite you.
The Persians aren't attacking today and you're bored. So you and your friends and Aristotle decide to hop over to the bathhouse and make a game of proposing alternative explanations for the motions of celestial bodies.
