Re: We’ll Remember you
Footnote: I’m not convinced psychology learned anything from him. I’m half-convinced they just like sitting around telling each other nice simplified, watered-down stories about HM and Kitty Genovese and the works of Stanley Milgram. And being like, “Gosh the brain is so complicated and wow people’s actions really are so complex. Oh look, another case that disagrees with popular notions of psychology. Aren’t we so smart, asking all these tough questions.” But when it comes to time to suggest actual working theories, they got nothing to show for it, just sitting around and asking lots of grand yet meaningless questions like a bunch of Philosophers.
Footnote’s footnote: They also *love* 7 plus or minus 2. Yes, it’s nice a psychologist worked out the capacity of working/short-term memory, but the actual number itself is not important. I wonder if they’ll ever get that… maybe never. Just another Cargo Cult, like sociology and educational theory, imitating the trappings of science, but missing its substance.
