mark henick 

Hello new friends in #neuroscience, #psychology, and #sociology !

I’m writing a new book about the three-way intersection of these fields. (Or maybe it’ll end up being more like three layers of the same delicious cake?)

Looking for three volunteers (one from each field) who would be willing to have a virtual round table discussion together with me on zoom.

I’m exploring commonalities, a shared extended analogy between the three, and want to interrogate where it works and where it doesn’t.

Nov 15, 2022 at 4:11pmWeb
Show threadmark henick Nov 15, 2022
Above also very much applies to… #neuroanatomy #networkneuroscience #socialneuroscience #cognitivepsychology #biologicalpsychology #socialpsychology #computationalpsychology #anthropology #behavioraleconomics #socialwork #theoryofmind #consciousness #academics
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@markhenick
Boosted as it's important topic to research
Show threadDavid Colquhoun on BlueskyNov 15, 2022
@markhenick
The gap between neuroscience and psychology is HUGE. Perhaps that's why one hears so much #neurobabble ( and #neurobollocks )
Show threadmark henick Nov 15, 2022
@david_colquhoun Absolutley agree. Even the gaps within psychology, between experimental and clinical. But I think these gaps are largely professional and social constructs, since there are such deep conceptual commonalities in the actual “stuff” being studied
Show threadDavid Colquhoun on BlueskyNov 15, 2022
@markhenick
I don't think that they are "social constructs". They are huge and quite possibly unbridgeable
Show threadDavid Colquhoun on BlueskyNov 15, 2022
@markhenick Electrophysiologically you can investigate at most 3 connected neurons. Psychology uses trillions
Show threadmark henick Nov 15, 2022

@david_colquhoun Temporarily suspending the uncertainty that exists in the gap from 3 to trillions (tall order, admittedly)...

Would/could it be reasonable to see the individual neuron as a microcosm of the higher order structures and functions of which it is the "basic unit," as Kandel called it?

Or would an unsolvable divergence happen in the intermediate complexity, in which the resulting psychology cannot be extrapolated from the constituent parts?

Show threadDavid Colquhoun on BlueskyNov 15, 2022
@markhenick The latter, IMO. It's like trying to understand a super-computer when all you have is three transistors -but more difficult
Show threadmark henick Nov 15, 2022
@david_colquhoun Although I only have a very elementary understanding of Chaos theory, when I read @JamesGleick 's book on it, it "felt" relevant when thinking about how mind could emerge from the interaction between the systems of cells that comprise the brain, and their environments
Show threadDavid Colquhoun on BlueskyNov 15, 2022
@markhenick @JamesGleick
The point of the brain is to reduce chaos, surely
Show threadmark henick Nov 15, 2022
@david_colquhoun @JamesGleick Huxley's "reducing valve" perhaps