[ExI] Physics versus psychology

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Oct 22 17:54:51 UTC 2010


On 10/22/2010 12:09 PM, Richard Loosemore wrote:

>> psychology stuff, which is basically people chatting.

> Speaking as someone who was originally a physicist, but who then
> migrated to cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence, the easier
> of the two is physics.

Mathematics is basically people chatting. Physics and psychology is 
basically people chatting and taking carefully measurements and chatting 
again then taking more careful measurements.

BillK might be getting psychology confused with psychoanalysis, or est, 
or novelists.

Damien Broderick




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