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The Romantic stereotype that creativity is enhanced by a mood disorder That's postulated as a given. If it's not a given, then it's a red herring. The author s
by 8bitsrule 8y ago
The Romantic stereotype that creativity is enhanced by a mood disorder
That's postulated as a given. If it's not a given, then it's a red herring. The author supplies no evidence that it's a given. As far as I got, the phrase 'mood disorder' was undefined.
... But is there any scientific reason to believe in a connection?
Science doesn't believe, science constructs and improves models based on repeatable observations. That which cannot be observed cannot be modelled. People can choose to 'believe' those models ... which is 'faith'. Which science was invented to get away from.
So in the first two paragraphs, the author prepares us for the illucid neo-phrenology which follows.
- carlmr 8y ago>Science doesn't believe, science constructs and improves models based on repeatable observations. That's confusing the scientific ideal, with how actual scientists operate. Actual scientists hope that they get something right, they feel strongly about their research like the mother of a child, they're just as clouded by emotions as any other human being. And if you add corruption into the mix, then yes, what we call science is not as solid as it looks, but it still provides useful results sometimes. But we can still talk about a scientific reason to believe. Because the reason might be scientific, but it still might be something which we can believe or not. Because scientific reasons are about as flawed as their creators. The replication problems in many fields are evidence that science is only as ideal as the people producing it.