# More psychologists

**URL:** <http://discourse.iapct.org/t/more-psychologists/7336>\
**Category:** CSG1997\
**Created:** [December 19, 1997, 5:54am UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/more-psychologists/7336 "1997-12-19T05:54:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 19, 1997, 5:54am UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/more-psychologists/7336/1 "1997-12-19T05:54:48Z")

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i.kurtzer (971218)

> [From Bruce Abbott (971218.1010 EST)]

> Sorry to hear that Tom feels that PCT has nothing to do with mind or  
> behavior -- the subject matter of the field of psychology. What's he study  
> these days -- robots?

I can only go so far as to his opines..but i feel he would contend that PCT  
says a great deal about behavior, while psychology has been much about  
something else, namely artifacts in the pejoritive sense. As for Mind,  
psychology has proven far more fruitless--2000 years since Plato and we have  
Dennet and Fodor rehashing Mind as representative and Mind as aboutness.  
Aside, i consider PCT to offer little help in the Mind department either, but a  
hierarchical perspective would.

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