It should can, but because science relies on human ability, the process is slow and faulty.
That's not completely true in East Europe but it will be if the West doesn't fix itself.
Yeah, it’s a great way to trick yourself. The more a system is understood, the less randomness you find in it.
I’m weird on this one. I wasn’t raised religious, I guess believing in a design or an inevitability justifies a designer. I started on the outside of the whole thing and cobbled bits of this and that together.
You can believe anything you want, and philosophize all that you desire around these issues that none of us really has an answer to, but in the end you don't want planes designed on that nor do you want surgery based in what the surgeon considers revelation from the divine.
What I’m trying to say to you is you’re either imagining or hyperbolizing a conflict that isn’t really there.
I am prejudiced against a lot of groups. After all.
I wouldn't want to fly in an airplane built by a philosopher or a theologian, but even less would I would to live in an ethical system designed by a scientist.
Yeah I somewhat agree.
If you start from the presumption that religion is false, then of course religion's ability to explain things would be inadvertent rather than systematic. But if God does exist, then there just might be something to revealed truth.
I think seeing christianity as a middle eastern religion isn't very accurate. Christianity perceives itself as the new testament being foundational and the old testament a prophecy or foretelling for the new testament.
I think that’s kind of what I’m asking - science, the scientific method is very good for some things. It’s very good at bridges and planes and surgery. It’s less good at other things - take medicine for example. If you’ve got a badly broken leg, a surgeon will go in and pin it back together using well engineered tools and pins and evidence based best practice. But go to a doc with severe depression and there’s not anything really meaningful and effective they can do. We don’t know how SSRis work, they really don’t work at all for a lot of people. When the medical condition is psychological we are still in the dark ages. When we ask some questions like what is life, or consciousness then we can’t even formulate a question or theory to start the process off. When we ask ‘what’s the best kind of bridge for this place’ we certainly can.
Yeah that is a deeply unsatisfying way of explaining it. I think trying to invoke total randomness there is wrong actually. Some chemicals are more prone to combine certain ways. The whole biogenesis debate is pure speculation though, don’t forget that. We dont know, and we never will. Plenty of people think Fred Hoyle was right
That might be because we don't yet understand the brain and how it functions, also because a medic cannot truly look for the actual cause of depression. For example, if you're poor and homeless, it's likely those material issues would have to be solved way, way before talking about your mother being patronizing or your dad leaving you at 5.
No, but it offers insight into how people work.
As an aside, I’m disappointed that the big five model came to dominance.
Depression is also often a response to other health problems, both physical and mental. An autistic person with early onset arthritis, a tumor in their middle finger, sensory issues, and extreme anxiety is probably going to have depression due to one of those things. Could be the tumor not allowing them to flip people off. Could be the hyper sensitive hearing. Could be all the above.
Yeah, and besides this there are the external material conditions too, most of which you are not able to control, and cannot be fixed by just one person.
