maybe we figured out physics too early
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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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The problem is that at our current level of physical ability/tech/intelligence it doesn't scale up. Physics/chemistry/medicine have given us nearly godlike powers and all you have to do is study a little math, basically.
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Psychology and sociology and economics are like "I want me some of that, that looks awesome" and then they drape math all over what are still basically super-empirical observations and a lot of the time it goes all cargo-cult.
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lol at both premises here
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