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I would argue that the zodiac is the proto-science of psychology.
This is people trying to find behavioral patterns
Faulty pattern recognition isn't something we should be holding on to.
It is the alchemy to the chemistry is what they are saying
So not at all based in science? Interesting as a historical curiosity but nothing more?
Interesting because of the psychological insights into not how all people are, but how people make up theories in general. Same way religion has scientific significance in an anthropological sense.
Perhaps "historical curiosity" was a little obtuse of me.
And how many people are still using Alchemy?
"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!"
They told us the history of alchemy in chemistry class, it's good to know the context.
Yes, but no one credible still uses it. Which was the point I was making.
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.
What hard sciences could replace economics and sociology? They're not very rigorous, but they seem to be useful. Psychology also takes some load off psychiatrists
Astrology is also useful.
So is palm reading; for grifters.
I just did a quick search and the difference between seeing astrology talk about fate vs personality is at least 1200 years apart.
Economic Science is also about fate
Cough... science...cough
Fuck those people who wanna categorize me so they can ignore who I actually am and just put a handle on me.
They want to understand you
No they don't. They want to put me in a neat little box for easy handling.
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.