Mrrzy:

Replicability as a criterion has to be adjusted to the nature of the field. While molecules are pretty apathetic and will blindly perform the same way every time they are subjected to the same conditions this is not the case for sentient consciousness capable of originating decisions instead of just reacting. Given that deep and important difference, the onyl way you can acheive replicability is in the most general of terms. Furthermore although every complex compound molecule of the same parameters will behave exactly the same way and will be found to have exacvtly the same components, two beings will be found to have an entirely different set of decisions across their long history, and with each different decision a different set of consequences up to which they either did or did not step. Thgis does not mean you cannot isolate variables and predict large-scale phenomena, but it sure means that a blind quest for absolute replicability in human thought is a loser's game from the get-go.

Because of this the goals and rules of evolving a body of scientific knowledge about this arena has to be thought through carefully in advance, or it will fail the way Freud's projections failed to make a uniform model of thought,.

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