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Psychology has set itself back 50 years. After disavowing all of Freud's ideas, psychology has spent decades constructing a piecemeal web of unreproducible experiments only to conc…

Although this seems compelling, there is also the role of 5HT2A receptors in weighting priors as Carhart-Harris and Friston discuss in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3339…

While it is true that we should be having a discussion about what really constitutes disinformation in a way that treats the concept as more than just a political tactic, this arti…

"But in order to make individuals susceptible to ideology, you must first ruin their relationship to themselves and others by making them sceptical and cynical, so that they can no…

Went down this road recently. I wrote some python code to handle some big archives of music, pdfs, and other media, normalizing the names of everything. I decided to try and correc…

We actually have a bit of a schematic diagram already. It is well known that both dopamine and serotonin are largely produced by clusters of neurons in specific fore/mid-brain regi…

I am not aware of any work that has gotten a good timeseries of neuromodulator response. So much speculation is thrown around about how these hormones respond to real world experie…

This is huge. So much of what we seem to know about these neuromodulation systems amounts to a number of "has to do with ..."s. Dopamine has to do with reward; serotonin has to do …

Whether one assesses one or another proposed model as having promise is a matter of debate and not a means to credit or discredit anything. It does not seem as though there is any …

At the moment, there is no canonically useful model of the mind that is established in the consensus of those who study it. You are writing this as though psychoanalysis has been r…

The question is not whether Kandel proved anything, but merely whether psychoanalysis has been discredited. I am not making the case here that it is proven, verified, or completely…

Kandel's obvious expertise on the functioning of the brain puts him in precisely the right position to give an assessment of how realistic Freud's models in describing what happens…

On one hand, I think there is certainly a perspective in this doc that shows where critical views are needed around the consequences of certain business models coming from big tech…

The difference between Kandel and Feynman is that Kandel is a neuroscientist who understands psychoanalysis and Feynman clearly hadn't really read Freud's work, only expressing ske…

While I did not find this article particularly deep, psychoanalysis has hardly been discredited. The core of the theory has been infused into almost every psychological modality pr…

I think (I might be wrong) the brain might be a good target because there is not much motion. To get fast readings from an MRI you probably need the stronger magnets. MRI works not…

As much as the pharma industry and medical practitioners were irresponsible in their contribution to opioid addiction, there is a dimension to this problem that does still does not…

This may make sense for you in particular, but it a lot of people the signal provided by depression is distinct in its persistent alarm about something that isn't really in the pre…

Very much. The numbers politicians have thrown around have had floors from 100 million to a billion. If Graham is speaking to the interests of future 100 millionaires I think most …

UBI is not bad. But without a better housing infrastructure in cities, UBI will be mostly a voucher for landlords, who will disproportionately end up quickly receiving a large frac…

In all fairness, JSON itself continues to be as simple a format as it ever was. Having schemas is an important adjuct because it frees devs up from constantly translating specs int…

If you count the number of microstates for a given macrostate you get a hyper geometric number N!/(n_1!n_2!...) The log of this is the Boltzmann entropy. However, if you consider N…

In thermodynamics there are two other formulations of entropy: the Clausius one in terms of temperature and heat, and the Boltzmann one. The latter defines entropy as the log of th…

Am I missing something here? A wave function is NOT a probability distribution! Wave functions have phase! The double slit experiment and bells paradox both clearly show that quant…

I suppose more succinctly, claiming that dopamine causes addiction is like claiming that the cam shaft is what makes a car go. Addiction is a phenomena that involves what appears t…