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Psychology is the study of the brain at its highest abstraction when we know very little about it at any level. If you believe in determinism then psychology is just voodoo bullshit. Everything should be able to eventually be explained by a pathology, physical processes. With each new scientific breakthrough psychology becomes more and more obsolete and irrelevant. How many counselors have already been replaced by a prescription to antidepressants?



I feel like that's saying weather forecasting is voodoo bullshit because it's all quantum mechanics deep down


What is a rain cloud?

Now what is consciousness?




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