Like I'd agree with the ideas if his 7-year-old grandson said them, the issue is that some people might be in psychology and have a different take not because of a fear or prereg (whatever that means TBH) but because there's a deep illogic there for our work.
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In my view the nature of the argument has more to do with general human failings (we fall back on "us" v "them" when we need to change people's minds), but yes, I think scientists in general sometimes fear to go too deep (philosophy)...
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... and of course we can point to the overall success of the enterprise as evidence that not thinking too deeply works. At least Physics, Chemistry and Biology can.
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... But those disciplines have well developed theories. Psychology has not really got that far, yet. Understandable for the first 100 years, not so much now.
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I'm not convinced biology has better theories than psychology to be honest.
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Ha! Well, you know - DNA, RNA, genes, selection etc. Admittedly many of these feel like established empirical facts already, but they started as theories. I struggle to think of comparable ideas in Psychology.
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If "DNA" is a good example in your opinion of a theory what stops "memory" from being a good one, or "neurons" or "learning"? Asking because I genuinely don't think psych is that bad for theories given these comparisons, but we can improve a lot.
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I am not trying to antagonize you though, and I know what you mean - Physics/Chemistry are older and the theories are correspondingly more mature.
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NGL but I think psych especially in the areas with the heavy modelling has some pretty amazing theories. Especially given how far up "we" are in the levels of the analysis of the universe, I think we're on good track if we continue with modelling. That's what worries me though...
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Yes. I agree. I think our limited efforts at modelling have borne fruit. But there's not enough modelling happening.
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