Re:Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died
by skat20phys on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @06:33AM
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Psychology is no more predicated on mind-brain duality than computer science is predicated on hardware-algorithm duality. It's a level of analysis issue. There's plenty of psychology close to the neuron, and there's plenty of psychology where invoking neural substrates is unnecessary or even impossible.
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Re:Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died
by dntbnmpls on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @06:09PM
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> There's plenty of psychology close to the neuron
Brain.
> and there's plenty of psychology where invoking neural substrates is unnecessary or even impossible.
Mind.
I already discussed the flawed algorithm/hardware analogy in another comment.
It's so strange that the two commenters claim psychology isn't predicated on mind-brain duality and yet in their same comment show that psychology requires mind-brain duality.
If psychology isn't predicated on mind-brain duality, it wouldn't exist any longer. We'd just have neuroscience.