Psychology

im not actually sure this paper really applies anyway

>You haven't given a single argument
Wrong. I've given many reasons defending my opinion why I think psychology is fundamentally flawed as a field in its current state. These reasons (paraphrased) include: institutional decline, a lack of imagination, a lack of foundations to establish a "systems science", a lack of universal connectivity between topics, etc. I've even provided examples of where it goes wrong and where it goes right. I've made quite the argument, no matter what your distress compels you to believe.

>What you've done is give a false analogy, What you've done is provide a dishonest argument. You either have no idea what you're talking about, or you're too butthurt to actually examine my ideas as I have stated and clarified them.

What I stated wasn't a "false analogy" because I never said that psychology ought to be conducted in the same fashion as physics, nor that psychological phenomenon is similar in quality to physical phenomenon. It was an attempt to demonstrate what other fields have that psychology does not.

In fact, I tried to provide a more obvious and less objectionable comparison to another field by bringing up biology, which has similar problems with reductionism and yet has managed to develop a robust system in which every discovery manages to "fit" into a general and unchanging picture of life and its machinery. i.e., biochemistry, energy, the central dogma, evolution, etc.

Psychology has none of those redeeming qualities that makes it less than a systems science. There are no foundations that lead to understand concepts that contribute to interconnected and long-lasting models of how the mind works. There is no "whole" that makes it holistic because there is nothing binding together events studied with social psychology with structures examined in neuropsychology.
The foundations are so weak that, even if models were to arise, we wouldn't know how to critique them or build upon them.

do you read alot of psychology or neuroscience?

>Also those sciences had fundamental breakthroughs long after they were established
Again, you haven't read a since thing that I wrote. There was a period when natural philosophy began to transition into what we would now recognize as the physical and life sciences. I would argue that psychology abandoned the systematic transition halfway through the process and is now stuck in limbo thanks to institutional mediocrity.

>you purport to be a imagination problem(ie. we havent figured it out so we wont).
Straw man argument. You don't even know what I mean by "a lack of imagination" or why I think it has persisted in psychology departments, and you're acting as if it is the only reason why I believe that psychology as a field has stagnated. Do you know what I normally say to stuck-up cunts like you? Ironically, "not an argument".

>You're just shit flinging because you can hide behind other peoples work.
And you're a cocksucking faggot who can't argue in good faith because what you're hearing genuinely bothers you. I'd like to imagine it's because you're a psychologist who feels threatened by the lack of legitimacy that I point out, but I doubt you're even smart enough to handle the rat race that involves conducting a non-replicable experiment and then figuring out how to best market your bullshit findings with the catchiest buzzwords. Go be a cunt somewhere else.

I study neurobiology at Harvard University. For fuck's sake, I took my intro. psychology class under Steven-fucking-Pinker. Of course I do.

Is that nebbishy teacher's pet as insufferable as he seems?

then how have you never heard of free energy?

>Is that nebbishy teacher's pet as insufferable as he seems?
Idk, I liked his lectures, even though they could be kind of dry. I didn't really interact with him often. I almost wish that I took the fall intro class with Daniel Gilbert because I heard his lectures were really entertaining.

I don't know. Probably because it's still kinda fringe but I think it's interesting and it's the kind of systems thinking that should be promoted in psychology. I'm glad somebody brought it up to me because I felt for a long time that nobody was trying.

Reminder that psychoanalysis will win in the end :^}

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