trouble with physics is it makes it real hard to be not a physicalist in other areas you can do it but its not easy
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why is that trouble well we had some decent models of human behavior and life generally maybe that were not compatible with physicalism being wrong is fine if your model works approximately well anyway but once you realize its conceptually wrong you cant really sell it as well
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so we have a pretty well functioning natural sciences, mostly, kind of meanwhile we've made no progress in most psychological and social sciences, in fact we've regressed in most of these cases i bet folk psychology/sociology was actually superior
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this because while our modern models are not wrong in the sense of being superphysical they don't strike me as an obvious improvement over the old baseline in prediction and understanding meanwhile, folk models are practical, predict pretty well, and are easy to learn
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I have no idea how true this was of historical folk models, but they do have the advantage of being worn to efficiency by the ages, kind of like common law
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Even today we basically rely on old models and stories about human behavior day to day, more in abstractions that don't so obviously eschew physicalism eg "he's angry" covers the territory much better than "his cortisol levels are higher thanblahblahbl"
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it's an old idea, it breaks if you much try to reduce it to some physicalist definition, and its super effective everyone understands "he mad" even though it's practically not much different than "the spirit of anger has taken him"
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