Note №5

31 January, 2025

No psychological theory can claim full validity until it is empirically verified, that is, grounded in human biology.

This implies the need to establish a connection between mental states and biological phenomena in the brain, the body, genetics, and related domains.

Identifying such a connection appears either impossible in principle or unattainable at the current level of technological development. One philosopher articulated this with particular clarity:

“Subjective inner experience encompasses everything that takes place within us: thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, values, spiritual experiences, and self-awareness.

Objective external manifestations of our individuality, by contrast, include everything that can be observed, measured, or described from the standpoint of the external world: the body, behavior, the brain, and physiological processes.

We may attempt to draw a connection between the subjective and the objective, but such a connection will no longer be scientific or precise. 

Science is a method for demonstrating objective phenomena, which is to say, it is empirical. Subjective experience, however, can be understood and validated only through introspection”.