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The idea that you can read minds or reconstruct 'thought pictures', as if that's something everybody has, is going to require a lot of evidence. How about we d
by barrysteve 3y ago
The idea that you can read minds or reconstruct 'thought pictures', as if that's something everybody has, is going to require a lot of evidence.
How about we don't "operationalize psychology". And how about we don't "operationalize psychology" by using an app meant to hook up singles and build chance encounters for love.
The mere knowledge that some of "us" will go to any lengths to manipulate psychology and make hidden adjustments "for our own benefit" smacks of the British Empire we left behind.
Or at least, that's a polite way to hint that "operationalizing psychology" is starting to sound like the 1940s, and the last resort is to link your 'psycho' thinking to the British Empire as a saving grace, as if that dead tree could cast a blanket over this 'lab monkey' nonsense.
Scanning neurons is neuroscience, not psychology. Given that pop psychology is pushing Jung around like he's still a recent discovery, then yeah, it hasn't progressed much.