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How often do you face moral dilemmas in your life? (pg. 5)
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| Zild |
| Not one bit as I only consider hard sciences to be real science, but I admit I am biased. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
This was a joke, right?
Hehe, well, this kind of claim usually comes from people who study other primates (I think Frans de Wall made such claims, for example)... maybe it's not surprising that it isn't a belief you hold :p
(By the way, I find microbiology fascinating, in case I sound rude) |
very cool and your not rude at all...that's usually me ;) |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
Not one bit as I only consider hard sciences to be real science, but I admit I am biased. |
Indeed you are - to stripe both psychology and anthropology of their scientific status is quite unfair, to say the least, because both of them arrive at their results quite systematically (not unlike the hard sciences) ;)
I (think I) can see why you think that way, though, and I'd blame history rather than you :p |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Indeed you are - to stripe both psychology and anthropology of their scientific status is quite unfair, to say the least, because both of them arrive at their results quite systematically (not unlike the hard sciences) ;)
I (think I) can see why you think that way, though, and I'd blame history rather than you :p |
It is important not to confuse the model with reality. Just because we're using models that give us fairly good results doesn't mean that it has anything to do with actual reality or the universe we live in. Such is science, and I feel that psychology and anthropology are completely different.
I'm probably biased though because I worked for a theoretical chemistry professor doing computation and he was always making fun of anthropology since that is what he studied for undergrad. |
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| nefardec |
i have several moral crises every day
sounds like your life is boring |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
It is important not to confuse the model with reality. Just because we're using models that give us fairly good results doesn't mean that it has anything to do with actual reality or the universe we live in. Such is science, and I feel that psychology and anthropology are completely different. |
How so? I agree with you, but I can't see how physics and anthropology differ on this issue.
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
I'm probably biased though because I worked for a theoretical chemistry professor doing computation and he was always making fun of anthropology since that is what he studied for undergrad. |
Now that's an uncommon career change :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
i have several moral crises every day |
Are you an artist, by any chance? :p |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
How so? I agree with you, but I can't see how physics and anthropology differ on this issue.
Now that's an uncommon career change :p |
I feel that stuff like thermodynamics is just a mathematical abstraction to help solve problems but it isn't reality. But I think that stuff like psychology is more rooted in the tactile and the real. It isn't so much a mathematical abstraction to understand behavioral conditioning etc... |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| my moral dilemmas start before i get out of bed every morning. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Are you an artist, by any chance? :p |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
sounds like your life is boring |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Haha, fag! *punch* |
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