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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by toxik on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:56PM (#15021763)
Seems a tad reductionist; by that same token, all of psychology is also physics.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by sndean on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:12PM (#15021922)
I wouldn't go that far, but there are many studies that have looked at the genetic (biological) basis for brain function/behavior [0]. Once you're at the level of gene expression, which some of those studies go into, you're at a level of acetylation, methylation, etc., which is easily categorized as chemistry.

The bigger argument I get into with coworkers is the blurry line between brain function/behavior stuff and psychology.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3030621/

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:04PM (#15021841)
> by that same token, all of psychology is also physics.

Yes, it is, which would be relevant if someone suggested there was no physical explanation for a psychological phenomenon (which is, in fact, what they are usually claiming when they claim it is not biological.)

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by roninb on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:02PM (#15021829)
Some people, pedantically, agree xD

https://xkcd.com/435/