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Post by Daniel on Sept 14, 2017 23:29:26 GMT
No. For the same reason that we do not study the evolution of a particular ecosystem in terms of the chemical laws that constitute its biological organisms. Yes, the chemistry is ultimately responsible for the resulting nature of the biosphere but we cannot conceive the ecological dynamics by studying the chemistry alone. Likewise, biology does dictate the workings of the mind; van der waals forces do eventually dictate the state of the economy, but there is no way to track it all, no way to determine initial conditions, no way to predict the effect of outside forces. Because of our own cognitive limits, we will never be able to understand psychology in terms of biology alone, there are way too many factors in far-too-complex open systems, and this is what keeps the 'soft' sciences 'soft'.
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