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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:23:07 UTC No. 16452798
Are there any grounds for identifying 100% mentally abstract Placebo/Nacebo effects? How can you prove/disprove someone has a specific mental condition when they have done everything in their power to convince themselves they have it, down to consciously emulating the symptoms? Does it ever reach a point where there isn't even a difference anymore? I think about this all the time, especially seeing the massive uptick over the years in self-diagnosis and people raking in the perks
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:37:32 UTC No. 16452894
>>16452798
scientifically we dont even have a way to measure thoughts so no.
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:18:12 UTC No. 16453259
>>16452798
Psychology is only as good as the practitioner and we've known this for over 100 years. If you want to make everything scientific and disconnected from human motivations then it won't work. In fact, static unthinking processes just set up incentive structures like you point out.