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Zach WeinersmithVictor Frankl is maybe the ultimate example of "this is great but it's not science, stop calling it science." All the great psychoanalysts should've just written novels.
Paul Anomaly@ZachWeinersmith Or Szasz. Or, for that matter, Freud.
brennen@ZachWeinersmith one naturally wonders: if freud had written novels instead, would it have spared us the effects of his influence on a century or so of novels?
(not to mention plays, poems, critical essays, movies, histories...)
Max@brennen @ZachWeinersmith I feel it might have somehow gone the other way and (I don’t know exactly how) booted AO3 up like a century too early and we’d all be talking about the Wagner Ring Cycle coffee shop AU and Darwin’s HMS Beagle Oedipal Odyssey and Marx/Engels slashfic. I don’t know if that is a better or worse universe
John Gordon@ZachWeinersmith They did write novels of course, they just called them science because quantum*.
Of course once the AIs explain human minds to us we may decide that it was all true, just insufficiently scoped.
* also widely sprinkled on things, but in the 00s.
Matthew Martin@ZachWeinersmith Science fiction specifically. Maybe that is too harsh. They were doing their best and didn't realize at the time that they were doing science fiction until long after they were dead. There is a real anti-psychology movement that is attempting to discredit the whole project and how bad the early attempts were shows that they do have some valid points.