shminux comments on Neurological reality of human thought and decision making; implications for rationalism. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:31:57PM 1 point [-]

The answer then, in my opinion, is to keep working towards bridging the gap between the lowest level which we have a near-deterministic understanding of (we know how individual neurons work and a little about how they are connected in the brain), and the higher level intuitive descriptions of mind which are descriptive but not predictive.

This would be awesome! School would be so much better if psychology could be understood from a neuroscience point of view...and vice versa, I guess.

Comment author: shminux 24 January 2012 12:31:17AM 0 points [-]

Do you have any interest in working on something like that?

Comment author: Swimmer963 24 January 2012 02:55:09AM 1 point [-]

My automatic answer is YES!!!!!, but I don't exactly have relevant schooling.

Also, from what I've seen I tend to clash slightly with psychology majors...I had a roommate in 4th year psychology and we used to have hours-long debates where she would eventually accuse me of being a reductionist (which to me is a good thing).

Comment author: shminux 24 January 2012 06:32:53AM 0 points [-]

Why necessarily psychology? You can go the biology route, then take a grad neuroscience program, though I suppose this is nearly impossible to pull off while working as a nurse full time.

Comment author: Swimmer963 24 January 2012 12:22:49PM 0 points [-]

Yeah... I may end up doing it, or something like that. My mother and father are making bets with each other on me ending up back in school for a significant chunk of my life.