I find it fascinating that intelligence and controllability in dog breeds are inversely related. How smart could dogs be made if we did not have to domesticate them?
That may be because psychology does not have a functional layer. Neurochemistry is part of the substrate layer, not of the functional description. It's like trying to explain what goes wrong in a car in terms of its materials, not their particular arrangement.
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That's because the arrangement of the parts of the mind are not directly observable or verifiable by an experiment, so the structural models are either esoteric (psychoanalysis) or incredibly shallow.
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I agree with the level of description error, available tools rather than solid theory guiding research. But there's another more fundamental issue. Psychopathology manifests differently cross culturally. i.e: chinese neurasthenia vs depression, anorexia as compared to koro.
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I don't think that anorexia and koro have similar mechanisms beyond the dysphoria part (body image modeling defect), the former seems largely about need for control and the latter about disempowered sexuality?
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Personality may well be similar. With social factors preconsciously directing situational-trait consistent behavior. A given phenotype (say autistic spectrum or something like psychopathy) may present differently both in terms of social behavior & even neurocognitive testing.
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