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Astrological Researcher's Guide to Math and Science:View game page

A handbook for serious study of astrology's links to science
Submitted by BenjaminIsaac — 4 hours, 26 minutes before the deadline
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Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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My honest feedback is that I don't believe in astrology from a scientific point of view so I'm not sure this would be fruitful and I'm not the target audience either. However if you are sincere in this effort, I would ask you to apply the scientific method: What is the hypothesis, what would falsify or prove it? If true, what would this tell us? If you can answer these questions coherently that would be interesting and update my views! If you can test them and show us your results that would also teach you or others or both something! so I encourage you to follow this process and report back! 

I agree with others that you make a concrete ask, but for scientists to want to fund your reading astrological material, you'd first need to convince them by speaking to them in logic and arguments they can be persuaded by (so I encourage you to try, or change course)! :) Science is all about questioning, changing your mind or that of others. I love when I change my mind, and if you can do that to me that would be a great litmus test.

My prediction out of honest though is that it's unlikely (almost certainly given my world model) to be true / persuade me; but do try if you believe genuinely in this I'm always open to the truth. 

I think astrology can be useful/fun from an introspection pattern matching archetype cluster noise / surprise injecting perspective, but im not sure about the line of inquiry you're perusing. 

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I am someone who went through the sciences for my post-secondary education, but despite that, I am always looking for ways to make sense of astrology. I do belief there's something to parts of it that I haven't heard a good explanation for. Having said that, I couldn't see in your write-up any links to the areas where my science-brain suggests we should be looking (orbital/light/seasonal cycles). Further, I tried very hard to follow your train of thinking to the best of my effort, even though it didn't feel real to me, but I struggled to connect the features of systems you were trying to bring together. It all felt a bit too unrelated and tenuous links to tie together into a story that my mind could feel good about.

I really appreciate the chance to bring my mind into a new domain, but I find that all I can say is that you seem like someone who I would really want to understand better if we met in the world. You seem sincerely passionate about this thing that I cannot understand, and someone who I think I would wish to succeed with their grand idea. I think there's a danger to pushing a new idea when you are a likeable sincere person, because people might be reluctant to discourage you.

I find myself really wanting to share encouragement, and while I don't think there's anything in your idea itself that I can endorse, there is a lot in your character that I wish to succeed in other endeavours <3

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I am someone who went through the sciences for my post-secondary education, but despite that, I am always looking for ways to make sense of astrology. I do belief there's something to parts of it that I haven't heard a good explanation for. Having said that, I couldn't see in your write-up any links to the areas where my science-brain suggests we should be looking (orbital/light/seasonal cycles). Further, I tried very hard to follow your train of thinking to the best of my effort, even though it didn't feel real to me, but I struggled to connect the features of systems you were trying to bring together. It all felt a bit too unrelated and tenuous links to tie together into a story that my mind could feel good about.

I really appreciate the chance to bring my mind into a new domain, but I find that all I can say is that you seem like someone who I would really want to understand better if we met in the world. You seem sincerely passionate about this thing that I cannot understand, and someone who I think I would wish to succeed with their grand idea. I think there's a danger to pushing a new idea when you are a likeable sincere person, because people might be reluctant to discourage you.

I find myself really wanting to share encouragement, and while I don't think there's anything in your idea itself that I can endorse, there is a lot in your character that I wish to succeed in other endeavours <3

Submitted

I'm not the intended audience for this thing since I'm not an astrologer at all, but I appreciate that the ask is straightforward and concrete - I can see that the thing you are trying to make could potentially be well received by it's target audience, even if that audience is not me! 

That may be an assumption worth validating, actually - a way to make this pitch more compelling to outsiders would be some evidence that you have or are planning to do "market research" of your target audience to demonstrate that there are other astrological researchers who would be interested in subscribing to such a publication. 

But I can see that this is clearly a passion project for you with a concrete output that is of learning value (potentially not even just to astrologers, since astronomical maths and science is such a fascinating topic) so I think this is the starting point for something concrete with real value to some people. 

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Photons, astrology, dust trails, infrared light as the mechanism of astrological transfer...? And your ask is $100 to subscribe to things and buy a few books? I don't know, man, I'm not saying there's nothing here, and I encourage you to keep up with the curiosity, but I cannot see how any of this holds water. If you're trying to unify astrology with science through photons, I think it might be worth considering some alternate angles, since I'm not sure how you're going to prove the astrological signs of hamsters.