ravenstine 1 day ago

Maybe I'm missing the point of the article, but the application of cybernetics to psychology was already proposed (albeit not by a psychologist) at least as far back as 1960 in the book Psycho-cybernetics. This "new paradigm" doesn't sound particularly new.

This sentence also puzzled me:

> Lots of people agree that psychology is stuck because it doesn’t have a paradigm

Psychology might not have a grand unifying paradigm, but it's been highly paradigm-driven since its inception.

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profstasiak 1 day ago

exactly. I cannot believe they mention cybernetics and psychology in one sentence:

> The science of control systems is called cybernetics, so let’s call this approach cybernetic psychology.

but they never mention psycho-cybernetics