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- From: "William T. Powers" <POWERS_W%FLC@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Subject: Harnad's reviews
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- [From Bill Powers (921212.2000)]
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- Rick Marken (921212) --
-
- Incredible, ain't it? If you write a basic paper on PCT, they'll
- say it's irrelevant to psychology. If you try to make it relevant
- to psychology, they'll say it isn't basic. Looks like there's no
- way to get there from here.
-
- Those reviews you posted brought to my mind the whole dreary
- stream of trivial reviews we have all seen over the years. This
- really seems to be the best that established science can do, at
- least in the journals we have seen (and that includes the major
- ones, I think). The awful truth is that these scientists do not
- want to learn anything new. They want their own scientific
- endeavors and those of their colleagues to be validated. There's
- no way to sneak PCT past the guardians of the gates, because they
- all recognize that there is something strange about it, something
- unfamiliar, and therefore something wrong. The whole system is
- organized to protect itself against being upset.
-
- It seems to me that we already have the forum where PCT is
- understood and can be developed. Let's forget about the rest of
- the scientific world and just do our modeling and talk about the
- results here. People who are interested will stick around and
- learn and contribute. People who aren't will go their own ways as
- usual. Most of the people who subscribe to this List have been
- here for over a year, most for almost two years. That says that
- something of interest to them is going on. Maybe if we start
- treating this list as a place to suggest and report on research,
- and to trade methods and ideas for research, the list of
- subscribers will become even larger. Maybe if we keep it up, most
- of the people who are actually interested in exploring a new idea
- will end up on this net, while the rest of the scientific world
- reads the journals like comforting bedtime stories.
-
- I think that psychology is old and tired, and ready to be
- bypassed.
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- Best,
-
-
- Bill P.
-