is ashamed. Although I am so proud of being a "doctor" (I passed the intermediate qualification exam a few days ago), since I graduated from medical school, countless people ( including my real father and mother ) have questioned me one thing: What is the difference between you and a serious doctor?
The reason is purely because my undergraduate major has always been a relatively remote subject in the field of medicine - Medical Psychology. In terms of subject classification, the " Degree Award and Talent Training Subject Directory " issued in 2011 does not have this subject classification; and when I chose to study for a postgraduate major, I chose " Applied Psychology ", a major that belongs to the discipline of education (in a sense, it can be regarded as an interdisciplinary postgraduate entrance examination contestant, although I don't think there is any difference).
If you think this is already very confusing, there are more confusing things behind it - due to the similarity in knowledge and my personal interests, when registering a doctor, I chose " Mental Health Professional " as my scope of practice; and when I was in the intermediate health qualification examination, I also chose " Psychiatry (340) " as my examination subject.
Some people may ask, aren’t you studying psychology? Why not choose the psychology department? This question is very good, why don’t I choose it? because there is no such option.
Someone may ask, you are wrong, I remember there is psychotherapist in the health qualification examination, why don’t you take the therapist? This question is also very good, why don’t I take the exam? Because psychotherapists are technicians, while psychiatry attending belongs to physicians. And in our industry, "psychiatrist" is the group of people occupying the peak of the ecological niche ; for example, I can take the exam for a psychotherapist, but is not Every psychotherapist (, even most ) can take the exam for a psychiatric treatment.
Whether it is psychology or medicine, or the intersection between the two - abnormal psychology or psychiatry, is a profession for me, and my preference for them is simply a simple emotion of a practitioner for a subject that can show his value and find meaning from it. As for the hobby that I am truly happy to devote my life to and effort to it, it can be seen from the name of this account - without a doubt, it is history.
I have no intention of repeating Li Shimin , Bacon or other famous figures about history. As for me, I can draw knowledge from reading history books, gain happiness, and even bring benefits to me, which is enough. As for turning it into my own profession, I thought about it before, but later I thought I should just forget it. Because no matter how good it is, if it turns it into your own tool for making a living, it will change its flavor; or in other words, it will reduce my "internal drive". In fact, it is precisely because I have brought me less and less benefits, and my own affairs have become more and more, that I gradually stopped creating after 2020.
. After nearly three years of putting down my historical creation, I read a book that surprised countless people (to be precise, a set) and quickly made me unable to put it down. In this book, my career and interests were combined in a way that transcends my cognition - This is the " Base " series and the psychohistory throughout it.
As the most famous work of Asimov , the "Base" series is indeed a masterpiece that has influenced many people (even many NASA scientists); and one of the most important clues - Psychological History is proposed by a genius mathematician - Harry Shetton and continuously improved by himself and his successors.
Although the psychology history written by Asimov, although it contains "psychology" and "historic", is actually very far from the two disciplines we are currently developing. In the book, Sethton did not know much about history and might have less understanding of psychology. What he relied on was to make predictions about the development of " Galaxy Empire " or the whole of mankind at that time by establishing a holistic mathematical model. If you want to use the current one to make a trap, it is actually " big data ". However, the big data used in psychology history may be much larger than the sum of data that can be generated in our world today.
Judging from the psychology and historical knowledge I currently have, the development of The former has involved many statistical models, and has even become a necessary condition for psychological research. However, models of scale such as the Shetton Project or psychological history seem to be unable to be established, let alone predict the development trajectory of a certain group or even the entire human race in the next hundreds or thousands of years; and judging from my shallow historical knowledge, it seems that they have not put in more effort in statistics than psychology, let alone using big data models to make predictions.
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But this does not mean that I think the psychology history in "Base" is unreliable; on the contrary, I feel that we have not developed similar knowledge at present, just because our knowledge progress and computing power level have not yet reached that level. Because the underlying layer of psychological history is a holistic view, that is, tries to predict its future direction through the overall movement laws of human society . In the model of psychological history, although the behavior of may have a key impact at certain key nodes, it cannot completely reverse the direction of development (such as the "mule" that was repeatedly whipped by later generations); and the prediction results of psychological history cannot predict the future direction of a single individual (it is still a mule, which is used by latecomers in the novel as a key figure to debate whether psychological history is still valid). Speaking of this, it is necessary to feel that Asimov, as Jewish , immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union at the age of three, his ideas were more or less influenced by Marxist historical materialism .
Therefore, as a firm materialist, I firmly believe that humans will develop a discipline similar to psychological history on one day (but it is unlikely to call it this name, because there is already a science called psychological history). As for me, although I had said goodbye to the mathematics classroom nearly ten years ago, I had forgotten all the trigonometric function of and , and therefore I had lost the opportunity to develop psychological history along the path of Sheldon; I still hope to do something within my ability, spread psychology or history, in order to inspire more people. Maybe there is really an individual like Sheldon, who can leverage the fulcrum of history and thus lead to some interesting knowledge.
For example, write some articles?
