https://briankoberlein.com/2015/09/12/the-statistical-nature-of-psychology/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 https://briankoberlein.com/2015/09/12/the-statistical-nature-of-psychology/#comment-3102 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:04:59 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5222#comment-3102 As for sci-fi, I’d like to recommend a short story, Exhalation by Ted Chiang. It discusses brain anatomy and how it effects/implements cognitive processes. And it also discusses the heat death of the universe in a touching fashion. You’ll probably both enjoy it.

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2015/09/12/the-statistical-nature-of-psychology/#comment-3064 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 12:39:50 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5222#comment-3064 This was one very good discussion! Congrats on you both.
One of my favorite episodes in the podcast so far (:

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2015/09/12/the-statistical-nature-of-psychology/#comment-3060 Sat, 12 Sep 2015 21:37:04 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5222#comment-3060 I think it should be well taken that if we did know the brain from ground up, to the limits of quantum mechanics (which should suffice for the modeling needed), and were able to “adjust it” to the same limits, and actually DID understand how to encode and decode in “brain,” then yes we should be able to do what the “hard scientists” say we could do. This includes loving something or any emotion. This includes consciousness. Maybe the guest’s opinion on this matter exemplifies the difference between the other “hard sciences” and psychology, though I cannot say for sure this opinion is shared by the cohort.

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