Psychology anyone?

[Citizen Bleys]

you can't use personal experience as your bias or support to saying "Psychology (as a whole) isn't a science".

Empirical evidence is the basis of scientific discovery.

Science, furthermore, is consistent. It's mathematical. Do the same experiment 10 times, get the same result 10 times. That's what makes science wonderful. Ask 10 psychologists the same question, and you'll usually get at least 3-5 different answers. If you're lucky, one of them will even be right.

The mind (as opposed to the brain, which functions according to logical rules) is too abstract and amorphous to be treated in a mathematical or scientific manner. It's the only thing in nature capable of illogic, which is anathema to scientific, thought. It calls for sophistic (as opposed to socratic), artistic thinking.

Inconsistency and abstraction are as positive a thing in art as they are negative in science.

EDIT: For the record, I was going to simply admit my bias against psychology and leave it at that, but it's been quite edifying to be able to have a conversation like this in a calm, rational manner. It's been too long. Most of my co-workers would have pitched a fit by now