epiphany Posted December 2, 2010 Author Share Posted December 2, 2010 Psychology is barely scientific at all when you're talking about published professionals let alone pre-graduate education. There have been many studies on human (and other animal) behaviour that show as meaningful results as any other scientific study. In fact, I was dissapointed with A level psychology because it didn't explore the philosophical enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Because you are you. A unique person. There's differing unique processing centres in the brain, e.g. ego, super, ego, id, super id... (ever noticed how you can have conversations with yourself?). So you can be different people in different situations, because you rationalise situations on a per situation basis based upon memory and given options. Then there's memory patterns. Technically everything is learnt behaviour, even if hereditary (i.e. inbuilt through the evolution of our genes). But then what happens in an unknown situation where previous rules do not fit, you will no doubt panic and make an irrational decision, because it is irrational to you. (But I now tell you you will be calm and rational!) When speaking of the nature / nurture debate, it's both in my opinion. Berkeley university psychology module on youtube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MvOwqNB_CQ&list=PL1D6C5FC9E7B57AF3 I watched a film once with an interview with the writer before it. He explained about spoonerisms, I then started to play with it in real life, soon it started happening without me meaning too... http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/spoonerterm.htm So harvey19, I am a set of unique persons... Just call me Wurzel Gummage, Aunt Sally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingjimmy Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 There have been many studies on human (and other animal) behaviour that show as meaningful results as any other scientific study.I disagree, I think there have been (relatively) very few such studies. In fact, I was dissapointed with A level psychology because it didn't explore the philosophical enough!In a way, that was my problem with it too. Instead of treating it like philosophy and just thinking and talking about things they dress it up and pretend that it is a real science, when it is not. I probably would've enjoyed it if they didn't keep pretending it was science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey19 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Is there a God guiding and influencing people ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingjimmy Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Did I say there's anything mystical about it? I just said I couldn't grasp it... Turns out I'm not the only one who got that vibe from you. This is not as daft as it sounds. I often wonder the same thing myself. Me too. Some say that it's the soul and that the body is just a vessel. The soul can leave the body and never really dies. Is there a God guiding and influencing people ? No, by the way, is the answer to that last one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 That is not true at all in my experience. You have to do a small bit of maths at A-level but not any science. Psychology is barely scientific at all when you're talking about published professionals let alone pre-graduate education. I did more psychology when studying architecture than when doing psychology itself. i.e. studying how people react to built environments. Then there's watching things like Jeremy Kyle, either just knowing responses or watching him triggering moods and reactions. It's not always too hard to spot learnt behaviour and predict approximate reaction (classify). Which can then be used as an example in an aid to alter the demonstrated behaviour. One NLP thing is too listen to how people talk, say, some people use words like, "hear what i'm saying", "know what i'm saying", "see what i'm saying" or "feel what i'm saying", from which they use you can determine quite a bit about their dominant sense input. (not totally, especially if they use them all all of the time)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTHFB Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I am me because I wouldn't want to be anyone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Is there a God guiding and influencing people ? Supposedly that's your 'super id'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Here's a simple trick (sort of science) to detect lies... It works better on kids. But I know people who can beat it every time... http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies_eyes.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epiphany Posted December 2, 2010 Author Share Posted December 2, 2010 Turns out I'm not the only one who got that vibe from you. Well I have no reason to extend all this to ideas about god and everlasting souls. I understand the basic function of the brain but I don't understand how that brain produces a subjective form of consciousness that I can call "me". Even though consciousness is developmental, it's that moment of its birth that baffles me. When do I become the subjective me and how does the brain create this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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