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@GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

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  • @cuerdo@lemmy.world
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    26•1 year ago

    I would argue that the zodiac is the proto-science of psychology.

    This is people trying to find behavioral patterns

    • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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      36•1 year ago

      Faulty pattern recognition isn’t something we should be holding on to.

      • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        17•1 year ago

        It is the alchemy to the chemistry is what they are saying

        • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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          8•1 year ago

          So not at all based in science? Interesting as a historical curiosity but nothing more?

          • @maynarkh@feddit.nl
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            11•1 year ago

            Interesting because of the psychological insights into not how all people are, but how people make up theories in general. Same way religion has scientific significance in an anthropological sense.

            • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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              1•1 year ago

              Perhaps “historical curiosity” was a little obtuse of me.

        • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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          -2•1 year ago

          And how many people are still using Alchemy?

          • @beardown@lemm.ee
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            7•1 year ago

            “I turned 5 pounds of lead into gold this morning using this one weird trick that chemists HATE! Subscribe to my premium substack to learn more!”

          • @explodicle@local106.com
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            6•1 year ago

            They told us the history of alchemy in chemistry class, it’s good to know the context.

            • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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              -1•1 year ago

              Yes, but no one credible still uses it. Which was the point I was making.

      • @cuerdo@lemmy.world
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        -1•1 year ago

        The problem is that we still don’t have a proper pattern recognition. We could discard all the soft sciences such as Economics, Sociology or Psychology.

        • @psud@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          What hard sciences could replace economics and sociology? They’re not very rigorous, but they seem to be useful. Psychology also takes some load off psychiatrists

          • @cuerdo@lemmy.world
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            0•1 year ago

            Astrology is also useful.

            • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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              1 year ago

              So is palm reading; for grifters.

    • @Mango@lemmy.world
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      3•1 year ago

      Fuck those people who wanna categorize me so they can ignore who I actually am and just put a handle on me.

      • @cuerdo@lemmy.world
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        -1•1 year ago

        They want to understand you

        • @Mango@lemmy.world
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          4•1 year ago

          No they don’t. They want to put me in a neat little box for easy handling.

        • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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          2•1 year ago

          Then they should talk to me, rather than rely on generalizations that were created a couple of thousand years ago and revived by new age mystics.

    • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      2•1 year ago

      I just did a quick search and the difference between seeing astrology talk about fate vs personality is at least 1200 years apart.

      • @cuerdo@lemmy.world
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        0•1 year ago

        Economic Science is also about fate

        • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          Cough… science…cough

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