TIL Jordan Peterson had an iq of 145 and taught at Harvard

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is a pseudoscience. In fact, the actual exact science of the human mind does exist, and considers psychology to be a special-case particular, a bit like Natural number arithmetics are a subset of actual mathematics, psience considers psychology to be a small subset of the possible states and modes of the human mind.

But it just so happens that this subset is the only one being reinforced at every turn, so that makes psychology look more scientific than it is, and especially, yield much better results than it should.

But as this newer exact science spreads, we will see psychology become an old memory. I wonder what JBP would say about that.

[–]Jackalope 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is a pseudoscience.

psience considers psychology to be a small subset of the possible states and modes of the human mind.

But as this newer exact science spreads,

If psychology is a subset of the true exact science of psience, then it is not in fact pseudoscientific, but incomplete like all of our science.

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It isn't a subset as a field. Rather it is a field about a subset of the mind. As such, it isn't only incomplete, it fails at encompassing the object of its study, the human mind, by admitting and recognizing only a small subset of said object. That is why it can be pseudoscience while being somewhat related to an actual science. A bit like you might say alchemy is somewhat related to chemistry, while being entirely different.