31 MAY 2015 by ideonexus
Conceptual and Technological Revolutions
There are two kind s of scientific revolutions, those
d riven by new tools and those d riven by new concepts.
Thomas K uhn in his famous book, The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions, talked almost exclusively about
concepts and hard ly at all about tools. His id ea of a
scientific revolution is based on a single example, the revolution in theoretical physics that occurred in the
1920s with the advent of quantum mechanics. This was
a prime example of a concept-d riven revolution.
K uhn's book...Folksonomies: progress revolution
Folksonomies: progress revolution
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notes22 JUL 2014 by ideonexus
The Myth of the Lone Genius
Today, the Romantic genius can be seen everywhere. Consider some typical dorm room posters — Freud with his cigar, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the pulpit, Picasso looking wide-eyed at the camera, Einstein sticking out his tongue. These posters often carry a poignant epigraph — “Imagination is more important than knowledge” — but the real message lies in the solitary pose.
In fact, none of these men were alone in the garrets of their minds. Freud developed psychoanalysis ...Folksonomies: genius collaboration
Folksonomies: genius collaboration
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notes22 JAN 2014 by ideonexus
Private Property Does Not Drive Human Aggression
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communistic system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is advantageous and expedient. But I am able to recognize that psychologically it is founded on an untenable illusion. By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression of one of its instruments. This instinct did not arise as the result of property; it reigned almost supreme in primitive times when possessions were still extremely sc... 1 notes
notesFreud argues that aggression existed before the concept of personal possessions.
21 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Marxism and Freudianism are Not Science
The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological rule, and since the demarcation between science and nonscience is vague. But it is more than sharp enough to make a distinction between many physical theories on the one hand, and metaphysical theories, such as ' psychoanalysis, or Marxism (in its present form), on the other. This is, of course, one of my main theses; and nobody who has not unde... 1 notes
notesMarxism did not allow itself to be tested, Freudianism was so flexible as to have an explanation for everything.
03 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
The Internet Fosters Collectivism
The way the internet has gone sour since then is truly perverse. The central faith of the web’s early design has been superseded by a different faith in the centrality of imaginary entities epitomized by the idea that the internet as a whole is coming alive and turning into a superhuman creature.
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he way we got here is that one subculture of technologists has recently become more influential than the others. The winning subculture doesn’t have a formal name, but I’ve sometimes ca... 1 notes
notesThe internet was supposed to empower individuals, but instead we see it as a collective, central point of all culture.
28 AUG 2011 by ideonexus
The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience
What I had in mind was that his previous observations may not have been much sounder than this new one; that each in its turn had been interpreted in the light of "previous experience," and at the same time counted as additional confirmation. What, I asked myself, did it confirm? No more than that a case could be interpreted in the light of a theory. But this meant very little, I reflected, since every conceivable case could be interpreted in the light Adler's theory, or equally of Freud's. I... 1 notes
notesScience makes risky predictions, predicting things that the theory must be strong in order to prove. Popper compares early psychology and its explanations of human behavior that work in all cases with Einstein's theory of relativity and it's risky predictions.
06 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Skinner and Freud's View of Child Learning
The theories that did dominate psychology, especially in America, were Freudianism and the behaviorism of psychologists like B. F. Skinner. Both theories had lots of things to say about young children. But like Aristotle with the teeth, neither Freud nor Skinner took the step of doing systematic experiments with children or babies. Freud largely relied on inferences from the behavior of neurotic adults, and Skinner on inferences from the behavior of only slightly less neurotic rats. And like ...Folksonomies: psychology inference
Folksonomies: psychology inference
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notesThey got it mostly wrong because they relied on a philosophical inference method of science.
