Precisely what I thought. @RandyNesse's recent chapter-by-chapter summary is unspooled here:https://threader.app/thread/1134505868857434112 …
My new video: 'Psychiatry is a mess'. We don't have a good understanding of mental disorders -- how to classify them, how to study them, or how to cure them. I explore how evolutionary psychology, behavior genetics, and philosophy of science might help.https://youtu.be/OhqNWGg0miI
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Francis Bacon observed that adjusting hypotheses to save the phenomena is inferior to seeking the truth. C.f., Faust, David, and Richard A. Miner. "The empiricist and his new clothes: DSM—III in perspective." The American journal of psychiatry (1986). https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.8.962 …
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"it is useless to refute them, for they are not themselves asserted as true" p. 128 "the calculations of one who not what fictions he throws into nature, provided his calculations answer" p. 32 From Peter Urbach's "Francis Bacon's philosophy of science"https://books.google.se/books?id=Lyt8AAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:xNWm-uUrnmcC …
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Keep the content coming. The Fermi Paradox video was great and ppl I shared it with really like it also.
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I think that you would be very interested in Kelly Brogan's work. She has filled in a lot of the missing gaps in psychiatry.
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The Incompleteness Theorem makes it impossible to "fix" all subjective problems, because applying fixes creates new territory. The new fixes for the new territory creates yet newer territory. The epistemic half of psychiatric disorders is a game of whack-a-mole.
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This was excellent, last 4 mins just so on point.
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Con* The idea that any one mind is capable of identifying and classifying traits that are desirable, or undesirable in something as complex as a different human mind, is nonsense. At best we can diagnose and medicate ourselves for productivity... But, if someone will pay you...
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How to not miscategorise them as lifestyle choices or promote them to children?
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