• cuerdo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

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

    This is people trying to find behavioral patterns

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      9 months ago

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

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          9 months ago

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

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            9 months 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.

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            9 months 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!”

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            9 months ago

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

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              9 months ago

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

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        9 months 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.

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      9 months ago

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

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          9 months ago

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

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          9 months 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.

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      9 months ago

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