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and that's another thing. the idea that you can neatly fit human behaviors into distinct categories like in the DSM. the entire thing is predicated on the idea that the human brain operates through discrete mathematical means like a computer, or that it IS a computer, with parts that can fail, and that these failures are replicable in their outcomes. THIS IS FUCKING FALSE. the human brain is analogue, and is massively redundant. if your brain is damaged, the neurons can reconfigure themselves and create new pathways. there are people with railway spikes through their heads, there are men who have had half their brains blown out by rifle shot, there are people with shrunken brains 20% the size they should be, who are either mostly normal or in many case 100% normal functional human beings. you can put rat brain neurons in a wafer, shove it in a RC car full of sensors, and the neurons will start driving the fucking thing around. WE KNOW THIS ALREADY.
not that any of that matters, because most of these disorders in the DSM don't even have any empirical basis in brain science. they can't, because of what i've just said. these disorders are not empirically replicable in any measurable way. almost every disorder in the DSM (and they are very few exceptiosn) is the result of people sitting around a table, coming up with baskets of symptoms, and then putting names to them
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