wedrifid comments on Two straw men fighting - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 August 2010 05:59:49PM 2 points [-]

I assume that neurology and psychology will converge or one of them will be forgotten by the way side.

Could psychology not be found to be still useful when considering human behaviors at a different level of abstraction (or, indeed, with different forms of experimentation)?

Comment author: JanetK 10 August 2010 07:18:42AM 1 point [-]

Yes, of course, psychology and neurology could exist together using different levels of abstraction and different methods - like physics and chemistry. But if they disagree on fundamentals and cannot converge then I don't think they can stay that way for long.