I meant things such as the biological bases of thoughts and why people have themneurons, neurochemicals etc.
Not the fuzzy pish that comes out of popular psychology telling people the reasons for their thoughts. If people thought about it, they would know the reasons.
It's the underlying mechanisms, chemistry and biology that forms a large part of psychology (or cognitive neuroscience) which is not as widely discussed as unqualified wankers can't go on big brother and talk about it.
(Not the fuzzy pish that comes out of popular psychology telling people the reasons for their thoughts. If people thought about it, they would know the reasons.
It's the underlying mechanisms, chemistry and biology that forms a large part of psychology (or cognitive neuroscience) which is not as widely discussed as unqualified wankers can't go on big brother and talk about it.
drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Tue 30 Sep 2008, 11:29,
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Are you kidding? unqualified wankers love telling people that they're in a bad mood because they need more potassium.There's fuzzy pish in all walks of science, but there's usually a fair bit of truth.
And to be completely honest, the kind of applications applied neurochemistry can provide aren't what I want in my modern society.
My mother is somehow still alive, but committed to an institution at the moment. I don't think we should spend an eternity trying to analyse her. Decades of "here's a new medication, we just heard the last one was unsafe" mean that her brain doesn't produce endorphins any more.
We shouldn't apply such extremes to the everyman.
(And to be completely honest, the kind of applications applied neurochemistry can provide aren't what I want in my modern society.
My mother is somehow still alive, but committed to an institution at the moment. I don't think we should spend an eternity trying to analyse her. Decades of "here's a new medication, we just heard the last one was unsafe" mean that her brain doesn't produce endorphins any more.
We shouldn't apply such extremes to the everyman.
gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 30 Sep 2008, 11:46,
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