Tom Tyler: The point [Watson] was making was that that stuff isn’t real, it’s all actually down to physiology
Eliezer: Tim, that wouldn’t argue against Freud.
It’s hard to see how any philosophy of mind (whether physicalist, dualist, or idealist) could directly argue against Freud, whose important claims were about psychology itself, not what psychology reduces to.
Tom Tyler: The point [Watson] was making was that that stuff isn’t real, it’s all actually down to physiology
Eliezer: Tim, that wouldn’t argue against Freud.
It’s hard to see how any philosophy of mind (whether physicalist, dualist, or idealist) could directly argue against Freud, whose important claims were about psychology itself, not what psychology reduces to.