Is Psychology Going to Cincinnati? (Adam Mastroianni @ SFI)

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Hello everybody,

Adam Mastroianni runs a very interesting Substack blog called Experimental History. I highly recommend his recent lecture at the Santa Fe Institute:

He discusses many (controversial) topics found at his blog and closes revealing his discovery of PCT as “the roadmap for a revolution” in Psychology.

Best,
Hugo

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Great find Hugo. Where is the section in the talk on PCT?

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Hi Warren!

It starts around 42min. He wraps up his main criticisms and then presents PCT.

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This is amazing! I sent him an email last February, introducing PCT after I read his blog "You can’t be too happy, literally, where he talked about control but didn’t touch on perceptual control exactly. I never received a reply to that email, but who knows what helped tipping the scales?

Watching this video made my day. Adam’s blog is consistently good, inspiring and has an enormous reach!

Eva

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I’m glad you liked it, Eva! Maybe your little disturbance became an opportunity for him to dig into PCT.

For those who don’t know Adam’s newsletter, I highly recommend it. It’s free and really good.

Hugo

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Here’s another time Adam mentions Powers, 1:04 in this psychology podcast: Two psychologists, four beers. Doing science better.

Hope we can connect.

Eva

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Can we feel the tide turning? Well done Eva. I’ve decided to email him too…

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I’m not going to get excited about the “tide turning” until I see it turning – really turning, not just a wave coming in. But I sent him an email as well, letting him know that people are still interested in Powers theory and that one of them is me. And since he is an experimental psychologist purportedly interested in revolutionizing the field, I recommended my book The Study of Living Control Systems to him. I’ll be interested in hearing what he thinks of it.