• cuerdo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I would argue that the zodiac is the proto-science of psychology.

    This is people trying to find behavioral patterns

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      9 months ago

      Faulty pattern recognition isn’t something we should be holding on to.

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          9 months ago

          So not at all based in science? Interesting as a historical curiosity but nothing more?

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            9 months ago

            “I turned 5 pounds of lead into gold this morning using this one weird trick that chemists HATE! Subscribe to my premium substack to learn more!”

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            9 months ago

            They told us the history of alchemy in chemistry class, it’s good to know the context.

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              9 months ago

              Yes, but no one credible still uses it. Which was the point I was making.

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        9 months ago

        The problem is that we still don’t have a proper pattern recognition. We could discard all the soft sciences such as Economics, Sociology or Psychology.

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      9 months ago

      Fuck those people who wanna categorize me so they can ignore who I actually am and just put a handle on me.

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          9 months ago

          No they don’t. They want to put me in a neat little box for easy handling.

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          9 months ago

          Then they should talk to me, rather than rely on generalizations that were created a couple of thousand years ago and revived by new age mystics.

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      9 months ago

      I just did a quick search and the difference between seeing astrology talk about fate vs personality is at least 1200 years apart.