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Still reading the article, and this likely is addressed therein, but I think the problem or "difficulty" with the "strong" medical model of psychiatry, which seeks to know the underlying biological pathology involved in mental disorders (as opposed to the "minimal" model, which treats mental disorders as heuristic labels of bundles of symptoms that tend to follow similar evolutions in most cases) ... is that there will be many conditions, traits, behaviors that society sees as pathological that won't be distinguishable on the "hardware" / brain structure & abnormalities level, but will be purely seen on the software level alone. It likely will take a long time for us to see, or will be never, that we'll manage to observe brains running at this level ... and too many pathologies will be completely unknowable to a strong medical modelist.

I also hope and believe that humanity transcends biology / hardware / strange-loopiness-in-software. We see less and less of a transcending viewpoint in "the [rational] West", and that belief still present comes less now from traditional sources and more from the influence of Eastern religion / philosophy. From a Screwtape Letters viewpoint the ultimate prosecuting lawyer is comfortable with the West in its current materialistic stupor ... but I grew up in circumstances where transcending factors were much more plausible and understood.