A Firm Science
The neuroscience of cognition lives on the uncomfortable boundary between soft and hard science.
👏 The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily health-themed newsletter. Owen Muir, M.D., is the proprietor of this banana stand, but frankly, he is always much more excited to have co-authors. Today, I’m welcoming
, who writes a newsletter here on Substack also. She is a Neuroscientist and a very funny and joyful human. We met—and this is true—at a LARPing event at SXSW, about which I did a whole live/hysterical realist coverage of last year.
Sharena Rice, Ph.D.: In cognitive neuroscience, we are in the domain I call "a firm science."
Owen: This is as opposed to hard sciences, like biology, chemistry, and physics. But not quite “soft science” like economics or (gulp) psychology?
Sharena: Yep! The neuroscience of cognition is a fusion of hard and soft sciences. The search for the truth in this space often needs the objectification of subjective experiences and the subjectivization of objective data. Cognitive neuroscience is in a grey area between quantifiable certainties and the nuanced …
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