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> how science works... hypothesis This is precisely what I would criticise: It's not actually a hypothesis in terms of being a testable statement: How would

• Jensson 5y ago
  Of course it is testable, psychology tests way more vague concepts all the time. It isn't as testable as concepts in physics or even biology, no, but it is still testable. What would an experiment look like? Lets say we have a drug which gives you animal level of receptors. Inject that into babies and see if they stop developing human level thinking, and try to find out why. Of course we can't run such experiments with our current morals, but it isn't impossible to do. Another thing you can do is look at the level of these in different humans and see if it correlates to achievements on school tests etc, see if some learning disabilities might be correlated to it etc. Or an even cooler thing would be to see if reducing animal levels of receptors would make it easier to teach them stuff. That would probably even pass our moral test.