Topic: Psychology and Theorizing

I am furious with the Social Science I am exposed to, in school, pleasurable reading, or scholarly articles. I swear, while social science produces rather amazing results, they have a tendency of absolutely sucking at theorizing. A good theory should provide explanatory coherence, as in the hard sciences, but there is much to desire of that in the social sciences. But for the purpose of being narrow, I will direct my criticism on psychology in particular.

I will give an example.

Dr. Martin Seligman provides wonderful empirical data, but the theories he uses...

Lecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBxfd7DL3E&feature=related

Or a written variant of what he lectures about:

http://www.langleygroup.com.au/eiw/psych/index.html

WTF!

Pleasant life, Engaged life/Good life, and Meaningful life. Can't you synthesize the data to be better? Ambiguous, indistinct categories and poor explanatory coherence?

And this sort of thing isn't just true of Dr. Seligman's theory, but many others. These include Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, most personality theories, and most theories on motivation (intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation) etc.

Seriously, WTF is wrong with the social sciences, psychology in particular, that they can't synthesize the evidence in to a good theory?

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I 'll have to recreate some snark I posted elsewhere 7 years ago

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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ADAM:  Based on the latest survey of Freedonia, using aerial doppler radar to map cropland, I can estimate its caloric yield and therefore, its population in the Middle Ages.

BAKER: Based on my experience in Central America with the Peace Corps, teaching acoustic guitar to guerrillas, I believe Freedonia had twice as many people as you figure, each eating half what you think is the minimum for survival.

CHARLES:  Based on extensive study of Freedonian folkways, I believe Freedonia was continually resettled by colonists from surrounding areas, each of whom brought distinct volksungs and crafts, before starving to death in the bogs and yielding their abandoned villages to new settlers.

DAVID:  Calculating the barge traffic flowing through modern Freedonia, and guessing how much slower a barge  would be 1000 years ago, I can estimate the internal population of medieval Freedonia plus or minus 50%.

ERIN:  Examining the lore of medieval Freedonia from a Marxist-feminist perspective develops the realization that Freedonia was entirely populated by male chauvinist pigs.

FARAD:  I found mud bricks in Freedonia that look exactly like mud bricks from Timbuktu.  These dudes were black like me.  And they had lasers.

GILBERT:  After twenty years of internal colloquoy with the writings of Foucault, I comprehend that we are unable to conceptualize the subjective experience of those men and women, who, so we believe, dwelt upon that landscape which we, in our limited understanding of their awareness, mislabel "medieval Freedonia".

HOWARD:  I have done no research since my master's thesis on the caloric value of beer in the medieval diet, but I am one helluva lecturer, and I got more grad students than all of you put together.

CHAIR: I applaud you all on keeping the fraud going.  Not that I like you, because you all want my job.  We got 7 "serious" lectures and Beer Guy for Homecoming.  That'll justify scheduling a hall each week this quarter and that justifies our department funding.  Well done!

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Part 1.

Psychology = The Study of the Mind
To Study = The act of the Scholar
The Scholar = One who discerns patterns.
Patterns = Organized variables that can be manipulated called Formulas
Formulas = Patterns that have lead to Predictable Outcomes.
Predictable Outcomes = Controlled Outcome

- Thus -

If you are on one of these formulas you are predictable, thus birth of Sanity.
-- You are then controllable with or without your knowledge, consent and/or state of mind.

If you are NOT on one of these formulas you are not predictable, thus the birth of Insanity.
-- You are not controllable without your knowledge, consent and/or state of mind, and thus a threat to any who seek control over you irregardless of need.

- Thus -

The birth of Freedom is the right of choice and mantenance of said choice to be predictable and when to not be.
The birth of Slavery, the denial of said right of choice and any maintenance thereof.
The birth of Tyrrany, the denial of freedom to all but one or ELITE few.

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Part 2.

The cure for Accountability and Responsibility.

If you are unpredictable, you are a often labeled a threat to society but yet, get charged in court and you are no longer accountable or responsible for your actions why? Insanity plea and the three proofs of harm which stood for thousands of years no longer apply to you.

What are the three proofs of harm?

1. Harm to oneself: Forever controversial.
2. Harm to someone else: Forever intolerable.
3. Harm to an asset: Forever negotiably forgiveable as an asset CAN BE REPLACED.

The field of psychology has overwhelmingly and systematicaly attacked these proofs leading to single largest epidemic in history, the pathogenic though through the power of suggestion.

To the perpetrator who pleads insanity: No longer responsible for his or her action/word.
To the victim who hears the perpetrator no longer held accountable: "Why the hell should I be?"

Observe all walks of life.

Responsibility and Accountability have been cured, leading to:
1. Death of Truth
2. Death of Trust
3. Death of Honor
-- behind any and all word or action.

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Part 3.

What has psychology discovered?

Walk into a doctors office and have him/her ask for an X-ray, or some other imaging of your body, is this now a part of some other department capable of standing on its own two feet? It is in the U.S and thus you often get a pair of bills not just one.

Why is this important to what psychology has discovered? Simple, the mind isn't physical, and they failed to prove this nearly a hundred years ago through the weight of the soul, (RELIGIOUS OR NOT HOLD BACK!)

How?
1. Find a computer fresh from the assembly line, WEIGH IT.
2. Install the operating system, use it, WEIGH IT.
3. Install other stoftware, use it,  WEIGH IT.
4. Format the harddisk, WEIGH IT
Unless your of European descent and have no concept of the number ZERO, any and all results will be forever inconclusive or non-existent

The mind is immaterial, non-physical, because it is a pattern WITHIN the materials.

Thus even if a psychologist happens to image some anomoly in the brain or nervous tissues, it is hardware damage.

Proof:

Any apparition of any disorder, to correct it, understand this:
1. Every apparition requires at least three things to survive.
A. Access to at least one sense, for input, for food.
B. Access to at least one processing center, for output, A toilet.
C. A place to call home in memory.

2. To kill the apparition, or parasite consciousness/program.
A. Recognize it's presence, DO NOT SUPPRESS/IGNORE IT -- You do not go to mechanic with sand in the engine and have him give you a performance enhancer that makes the engine work harder! THIS GARUNTEES ENGINE FAILURE!
B. Understand that the memory is the only reliable constant for any apparition.
C. Find the source of it's memory, and comparitively understand it through patients life or another's experience if necessary be inventive through Sci-Fi/Fantasy and COUNTER IT. Synonymous to a song stuck in ones head to one plays it, but much much more severe.

3. If apparition returns or is anew.
A. Repeat Step 2.
B. Check the Top Seven: Pollutant, Poison, Toxin, Infection, Radiation, Trauma, *Bloodline*
*Bloodline* is the full deck of cards, genetics is study of each individual card.

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Part 4.

EM Spam.

EM Spam may not cause cancer, but sure does cause an effect.

Name a psychologist that hasn't used EM of any kind to study/stimulate/suppress aspects of the mind or brain activity.

Danger: Binural frequencies. Wireless N routers that spam out multiple frequencies take advantage of this concept.

What is it?
1. Play a frequency at 15 hertz.
2. Play  another frequency at 25 hertz.
3. Get a bonus harmonic frequency of 10 hertz, a differential harmonic.
4. Apply to real world and the shear number of EM sources.

N-level frequecies collide and interact leading to accross the board full spectrum of harmonics. No matter if the base frequency is harmless or not, the harmonics can and/or will be. How?

Fortunately the vast majority of EM spam is digital, and not analog which we are said to be. Therefore digital should only affect one aspect of the mind, and the most direct and basic -- Emotion the fundamental basic thought.

Be terrified of the emo generation.

Emotionally tense, always on edge, demand instant gratification, failure to concentrate/focus/remember, even nervous ticks.

Why?  Humidity is to rain as harmonics are to human mind. Simply put, by the time the air around us reaches it's EM maximum saturation point, we will have already fried our electronics and/or minds.

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Part 5

The senses.

1. Taste = Point Blank Chemical Based.
2. Smell = Over Range Chemical Based.
3. Touch = Point Blank Applied differential of Pressure.
4. Hearing = Over Range induced pressure within fluid of ear, from air, water, solid object (door, rail etc.
5. Vision = Over Range visible spectrum of light, Electromagnetic.

Apply simple algebra, Where's visions complement?

Gamma, X-ray and upper UV largely absorbed or deflected by Earth's magnetic field or atmospheric contents, but is still the most electric end and cannot pass through without damaging something as means of notice, is to short or to low an intensity to be useful.

Therefore, opposite end of the spectrum is magnetic, all to often easily pass through, especially us, why then does anything of this need external features?

Look to the compass, a simple humble device with three major components:
1. The needle that is magnetized long enough to align.
2. The Gyro that supports the needle allowing to freely spin, long enough to align.
3. The first two to be brought within the PRESENCE of a second magnetic field.

Interesting...
1. Walk into a supposedly empty room, ...
2. Look up statistical range of human personal space, versus human hearts EM field.
3. Look up the amygdalas a pair of brain structures still poorly understand, heavily connected to the hyppocampus to which regulates motor control, memory, speech, and has been to known to contain ferritic (iron based) magnetic particles.
4. Pull out your wallet, look at the back of your credit, debit, gift card. Go home for antique VHS/Cassette tapes, the harddisk of the computer you are using to read this. Ferromagnetic data storage.

See a pattern?

The body has already long since perfected Magnetic RAM.

That which is used for memory, is imprinted via electrical impulse of nervous tissues, but what about the unused RAM, better known to programmers as the heap? Why let it go to waste? Collectively tie it as a compass! ...and this discovery is not new, however the memory technology bit is.

As said in Part 4, interesting problems all the more rise, but I am not going to go in the infamous T-word, but say we completely rebuilt it externally before we understood it. Look to any news cast...

Is not the reporter in the forground offering a predesigned opinion?
Is not the happenining in the background, the raw data, in truth at site complete with all sensory input fit for your own conclusion?
Is this not mass data transfer that now is so undelably inseperable for most of our now daily lives?
Does not the communication device, particularly wireless give off a signal?
Is not that signal worthless if your reciever is NOT within the signal's PRESENCE?

It's a communication system, and a hell of a powerful one, based off electromagnetic presence. Want people out, put up a firewall, may be simple as closing your eyes!

How to use/Train.
1. Find safe place and a compass.
2. Confirm it works, by shaking it.
3. Observe the needly girating in two directions before settling on one.
4. Go to new location.
5. Close your eyes without checking from compass.
6. Clear your mind, DO NOT DROWN YOURSELF WITH KNOWLEDGE FROM LAST KNOWN LOCATION
7. Ask which location, guess, repeat.


It gets better you know that drowning thing in step 6 isn't that perception?

What is perception, but the ability to discern patterns.
What is cognition, but the ability to store/use these patterns.
Recognition, patterns experienced or observed.
Precognition, patterns manipulated and predicted.

Past - Present - Future

What's the final? I'd put everything on something like law of capacitence within electronic circuits. Chemo, Peizo, EM, and Temporal are all series, they compound as value related.
The fifth however, is in parallel, 4 senses equals 1 over 4. In short, the fifth is something of all the previous four and communicates through pain which translates to harm. Confrontation and Preservation better known as fight or flight.

If one fights, everything is within in bounds of minimal to no harm.
If one takes flight, everything is outside bounds risk of harm or worse is garunteed.   

The five senses are thus:

Chemosensory: Taste/Smell
Peizosensory: Touch/Hearing
Electromagnetic: Presence/Vision
Temporal: Perception/Cognition
Maintenance: Confrontation/Preservation

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Justinian, take that mess to any social science or psychology professor, see what they say, I would greatly love to see/read their replies smile

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That's about 9 minutes of my life I am never going to get a return on.

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A friend said it better, "A wall of text strikes you perfectly for 6752 Characters."

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Wow no counter post by Justinian, I have never seen him silenced.

Btw Tech your arguments work for a Pyschologist, but not a pyschiatrist.

Everything bad in the economy is now Obama's fault. Every job lost, all the debt, all the lost retirement funds. All Obama. Are you happy now? We all get to blame Obama!
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A very thin line there too tho...