Finished my phD in History, and now I'm basically a NEET for the time being. How's everyone going? Haven't active;y used this site for a while, and it's cool to see the same familiar faces are still here. So, I'd like to ask everyone: on what subjects do you consider yourself most knowledgeable in, and is there anything about it that you think is the most interesting to know?
Sociology. Marx was right, the social sciences are just as firm and factual as the material sciences and should be considered material sciences in their own right (when done correctly of course). They’re just much too complex to model fully, but smaller principles of social interaction can be operationalized. We have complex enough understandings of social interactions that we can predict emotional outcome to a given set of stimuli (think simple noun verb noun situations like “dog bite man”) just as accurately as a chemist can predict reaction outcomes.
The important take away here though is that we have intuitive knowledge of the science of social interactions but live in the superstructural world rather than the material so our brains are constantly doing mathematic calculations of social formulae even if we’re not aware of it. Same way your brain knows applied physics to judge where you need to stand to catch a thrown ball even if you yourself are not aware of how to do the math. Super interesting stuff