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08-29-2014, 04:59 AM | #1 |
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New Inventions: just-around-the-corner breakthroughs in Psychology (and similar)?
Greetings, all!
So, Psychology (capitalised) walked a long way from TL0 mix of lore and superstition with its exorcism of angry mind-spirits to a TL8 science with techniques and drugs that actually do allow fixing derangements and doing other stuff (when done properly, anyway). It went even further up to TL10, with inventions such as harnessing the intuitive capabilities of the local subconscious (TM134, 136), ability to edit individual mental traits of people (TS166, TS136 and 144), efficient unconscious education (FW34) and genuinely efficient edutainment (FW35) etc. But Transhuman Space is a world of rapid invention. So the question is, what sort of inventions along the lines of Psychology and its related fields are just-behind-the-corner, ready to be the next big thing accessed through a New Invention. I'm talking both TL10 stuff that hasn't been invented yet, and early-TL11 stuff that can become yet another of the first heralds of TL11 that keep popping up in 2100? Thanks in advance! |
08-29-2014, 07:46 AM | #2 | |
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Psychology as the scientific study of the human mind may not actually contribute that much right now. What works (sometimes) may be more the domain of that neurophysiology and related medical sciences. A vastly improved State Of The Art is assumed in TS but what it can or should be able to do is largely unrelated to current practices. Other than "turn to the later TLs of Bio-tech and UT" to get game mechanical answers I haven't got anything for you. I just wanted to get in my 2 cents on what I thought were mistaken beliefs about the current SOTA.
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08-29-2014, 09:12 AM | #3 | |
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Psychological injury, and the behaviors resulting from unsuccessful or imperfect coping attempts, that's much less tractable,. |
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08-29-2014, 11:49 AM | #4 |
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The "hardest" part right is making someone realize they have a problem and should change for their own benefit.
It's not depression; it's that my life sucks or I feel physical pain and everyone keeps calling me "crazy". It's not bipolar disorder; it's depression, and my rare happy moods are normal. It's not abuse; she/he loves me, and every relationship has problems. Some "magical" method of getting people to see their lives in an unbiased manner would help so many people.
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08-29-2014, 10:31 PM | #5 | |
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It seems to me (and to Confucius) that as technology develops, the degree of individuality permitted by a society increases. Many people on this forum would have been considered dangerously unstable and anti-social in previous eras, but now we're part of the mix. If you accept dual inheritance theory, that humans evolve culturally through memetic exchange, people like me play a vital role - we produce mutated memes for lateral exchange. Most of them are inviable, of course, but crazy and creative are closely linked. In THS, you see a society of maximized individuality, so I'm thinking there's a helluva lot more room for crazy. Also, y'all are kind of ignoring the whole hedonist imperative of transhumanism. There's a whole school of TH thought based around altering one's neurochemisitry to end suffering. A pill for getting up, a pill for work, a pill for coming home and a extra one for weekend - screw that, let's get a MDMA gland! Coffee plants gene-fixed to make modafinil. A high tech society that has normalized hallucinogen use would be VERY odd. Expect religious revivals for one thing. This is a world were New New Coke is real coke, where you can go on a heroin binge, write some Old Romantic poetry, dose yourself of Nu-Bogaine (TM) and never be addicted. Solving addiction itself would drastically alter society. Ibogaine been around for decades, with dozens of scientific studies and it's still utterly illegal in the US. |
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08-31-2014, 11:27 AM | #7 | |
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Social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder is so much easier to explain to oneself than vague terms like crippling shyness or how even good excitement can lead to hell. Dealing with that inner voice with psychological techniques should be possible at real world TL 6 or any time with proper types of culture.
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08-31-2014, 11:42 AM | #8 | |
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Frequently for therapists working with a "black box" they don't even have initial diagnoses that would pass a rigorous scientific standard. Then once you're in the fix of not knowing how was sick with what and how bad you have lots of trouble measuring success of therapy v. letting the patient try to recover on their own. To Gurpsify things you could be looking at "Roll v. Will every 6 months at a penalty equal to x to recover. Treatment with Psychology-12 gives a bonus of y." and we can't tell what the values of x and y should be or even if 6 months is about right. It's very hard to tell when things that can't be quantified are scientific.
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09-01-2014, 12:06 AM | #9 | |
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09-01-2014, 01:36 AM | #10 | |
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Mine are biological not trauma or experience created, so desensitization is not very effective. I still try if only to keep from getting worse. Also social phobias are tricky as every exposure is radically different. Not like how all spiders are pretty much spiders and unlikely to perform truly unexpected fear inducing behaviors.
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