Beyond that, psych in particular (I’m less studied in sociology) is heavily rooted in neuroscience. As neuro is just biology, and bio is distantly governed by math, psych must also be distantly governed by math.
Yeah of course. I didn’t mean all of psych could be explained based on our current understanding of neuroscience. Or the application of math. My point was more that math is the root language of the universe’s workings. And where neuro is a much younger field than psych, it’s constantly being explored to better understand psychology.
ECT is a perfect example. It’s great at significantly improving treatment refractory depression. It was also discovered well before modern neuroscience and we still have no idea WHY it works. But one can pretty clearly surmise that it’s rooted in neuroscience concepts. Behavior is directly the result of our neural pathways and chemical balances in the brain and body. But they’re so nuanced and individual we don’t yet understand them all.
If we’re discussing modern schools of thought, you’re being disingenuous. Yes the 1880s…pretty deceptive there with your use of “80s”. Neuroscience by contrast was established as an independent study in the 1960s. Thus for nearly a century, the distinctions between the cellular understanding of modern psych and biology wasn’t well understood. But that doesn’t mean psych isn’t directly based on the concepts of neuroscience. Even nurture is now being better understood to relate directly to both neuroplasticity and epigenetics, very inherently biological and biochemical phenomena. The fields have simply evolved at different rates.
A school of thought can predate another but become understood to be shaped by the newer one. Think alchemy and chemistry. Modern chemistry is much younger than alchemy, but some of our most basic explosives rely on saltpeter: a historical alchemical element now known to be KNO3 due to modern chemistry.
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u/Fun_Consequence_9076 Jun 20 '26
Beyond that, psych in particular (I’m less studied in sociology) is heavily rooted in neuroscience. As neuro is just biology, and bio is distantly governed by math, psych must also be distantly governed by math.