[cristianpascu]

The 'scientific method' is mostly a pop-culture myth. Mostly used to discrediting whatever views one does not like. There is value in predictability, but one must understand its limits. It's one thing to work with electrons and planetary systems. It's easy to be cocky about how successful physics is. But that is far from covering the whole of reality. Our minds, whether you believe that means your brain or soul or both, are much more complex than the hydrogen atom.

It's one thing to appreciate what Richard Feynman contributed to physics, an another to understand his behaviour in striptease clubs. It's one thing to explain black holes and stuff, and another to analyze the correlation between IQ and success, BIG FIVE personality traits, disgust, political views and biases and what not.

[mamon]

That our brains are more complex that hydrogen atom is a fact, but that does not invalidate scientific method. It simply means that we need much more time, more research, more data and more complex theories to understand brain than we need for an atom.

Psychology today reminds me the state of medicine before bacteria were discovered: we do some semi-magical rituals that sometimes work, but they do not produce predictable results, because we are yet to discover the real underlying mechanisms of human mind.

[jjeaff]

I think if you dig in to many modern medical treatments, you'll find that the true reason they work is unknown (and in many cases, there is little evidence that they work at all).

Even in the hard science of physics, we we can understand the cause and effect, but the fundamentals of nuclear forces, gravity, magnetism are all a complete mystery.

[cristianpascu]

But there's certainly hope that someday we'll be able to explain through physics how come we hope to explain hope and understanding through physics.