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Old 05-18-2010, 08:52 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Brutha View Post
The thing is that you always need mental frameworks.
Sometimes evolutionary, neuroscience or cognitive explanations can help understand behavior.

Even when neuro/cognitive narratives aren't perfect they are for example more accurate than the reductionist rational human being narrative that gets used in neoclassical economics.

It's helpful to be able to think about a given idea from different perspectives.
Again true -- I think it's interesting, the problem begins when people lose sight of the fact that it's a theoretical framework, not Absolute Truth. As always...
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