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> I'm wondering what the options are? We can't just dismiss Psychology, cancel an entire field because it has difficulties. Why can't we study humans, what stud

> I'm wondering what the options are? We can't just dismiss Psychology, cancel an entire field because it has difficulties. Why can't we study humans, what study of humans would take the place of Psychology? Imagined if we studied and tried to understand how CPUs work by endlessly clicking around in the interfaces of popular user software. "Oooh, look, this one has a 'file' menu too! I think file menus might be one of the universal traits of all computation!". We know that there is such a thing as psychology, and when we finally understand it that the psychologists will have had nothing to do with that. Their insights are minimal on the best days, and non-existent the rest of the time. They're off heading in their own pseudo-science direction, and it's doubtful that they'll disband even after someone else figures out their science for them. It will just limp onwards like phrenology.

FrustratedMonky 3y ago
>We know that there is such a thing as psychology, and when we finally understand it that the psychologists will have had nothing to do with that. Guess, that is the problem. Seems like most of the thread doesn't seem to think it can be studied at all. You seem to acknowledge it can be, just not by 'Psychologist'. I think this is a case of changing the title. Everyone seems to have a pretty negative view of the field of Psychology, so there are now a lot of other fields off doing Psychology but they changed their names, thus 'psychologists will have had nothing to do with that'. But where did it start? Or maybe I'm not up on the times. What I'm calling Psychology has up and left and call themselves neuroscientist now, or 'cognitive neuroscience'.