The inferential path between the fMRI instrument and anything meaningful is extraordinarily long, complex, and tenuous. Just at the front end it involves several stages of statistically torturing the distorted and noisy data to get some stable signal out of it.
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Do you mean the scientists themselves treat it as normal? If so, on what basis is a field being designated as *actually* pre-paradigm?
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Well these are interesting and difficult questions! The relevant meta-science is itself mostly pre-paradigm, so any answers have to be tentative… >
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Ah okay I get that. And fans are partly responsible for that unjustified extension. Perhaps the practitioners too out of ‘hard science’ envy/insecurity (as in psych and econ) leading to mathematization of dubious value. Spherical cow math on real cow phenomenology.
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Yes; some boring fields are afflicted with scientism/physics-envy without an external fan base. Fans and funders demanding and accepting fake answers make the problem much worse though.
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