This piece was tough to write, in part because it addresses an issue in psychiatry for one of its core examples—and I take very seriously not wanting to disrupt other people’s paths to wellness.
Still, many scientific fields have met with serious setbacks as of late, which can be difficult to translate to critical policy changes. That disconnect can create a crisis of expertise--at least, if we forget what “knowledge” really is, and how to practise it better every day.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-end-of-expertise-the-beginning
Also, @Merlin, if you don't follow Erik Hoel, I do think you'd enjoy his writing, based especially on our last conversation.
I had a piece of his linked in the above newsletter, but instead of making you go fishing for it in my dreck, here's Hoel talking about how consciousness studies have skewed overall neuroscience research, for better and for worse. (If you haven't read it yet already, mind you; I wouldn't be surprised if you already know of and follow him!)
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/neuroscience-is-pre-paradigmatic
@MLClark ty for his link.. skimmed briefly, very interesting.
(to return to incentive structure... human survival is now a derivative ;)
re what I skimmed of Erik... fall of psych: I often thought it was an existential mistake of psych to model itself after the hard sciences - or that at least the tools to quantify the human experience, in its myriad forms, aren't yet available.
I was using 128 ch EEG and collecting repeatable 120 Hz+ activity - but dismissed as artifact by "establishment"