20240823 - quote from "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

06-Validity.Rmd

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 ###### Psychoanalysis Versus Empiricism {#psychoanalysisVsEmpiricism}
 
 We can consider the difference between psychoanalysts and empiricists in cultural references.\index{psychoanalysis}\index{empiricism}
-If we consider a scene from *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* where a man extrapolates a simulation of the universe from a single piece of cake, we find similarities to how psychoanalysts connect everything to everything else through grand theories.\index{psychoanalysis}\index{theory}
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+Here is section from Douglas Adams' *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe* (from the series, *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*):
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+> To explain—since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation—every sun, every planet, their orbtis, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.
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+> --- Douglas Adams (1980, p. 76)
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+If we consider this idea that someone might be able to extrapolate a simulation of the universe from a single piece of cake, we find similarities to how psychoanalysts connect everything to everything else through grand theories.\index{psychoanalysis}\index{theory}
 Psychoanalysts try to reconstruct the entire universe from a sparse bit of data with supposedly strong theoretical understanding (when, in reality, our theories are not so strong).\index{psychoanalysis}\index{theory}
 Their "theories" make grand conceptual claims.\index{psychoanalysis}\index{theory}