On 1/24/23 3:55 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
I am currently browsing the millions of books in the Berlin state
library. They have so many books that they are a "closed stack"
library where you have to order every book you want to read (unlike
most open-stack university libraries). One of the books I have
stumbled upon today is named "Turning Psychology into a Social
Science" by Bernard Guerin, a professor of psychology at the
University of Southern Australia in Adelaide.
You can't just ask chatGPT the question "what does Bernard Guerin have
to say about Turning Psychology into a Social Science?" ? I'm guessing
OpenAI *hasn't* ingested that work so it would have derive it's answer
from reviews or synopses and quotes and references from other works?
The idea in his book is to focus on the social interactions that
determine the behavior and shape human actions. Similar to the
fundamental idea we have discussed earlier that subjective experience
can be understood by the particular slice of the world someone has
perceived.
IIRC it was this discussion that made me think that cinemas are just
machines to solve the hard problem of consciousness: they show us what
it is like to be someone else by revealing us all the essential social
interactions and contexts that shaped the behavior of a person.
I really like this way of characterizing it.
Mary and I discuss often the value and utility of literature in a
general education. She and I have somewhat complementary tastes in
literature and non-fiction but we both appreciate the others' and gain
something from the discussions/readings/quotes we share from one
another. For example, Mary has a strong fascination with various
forms of social abuse and in particular political incarceration. For
example, she just finished Gustaw Herling's memoir " A World Apart"...
a Pole who was put into the Soviet prison system *before* the start of
WWII with Germany... as a Pole, he was fighting their (then ally)
Germany and therefore considered an "enemy of the (Soviet) state".
I have also held the un(der)founded opinion that a great deal of what we
consider to be a *mental* illness is actually a *social* illness: the
cognitive dissonance experienced with one's social context can be
something "wrong" with both/either the individual or their context.
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