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Published Aug 28, 2017

Light Keiser  

Abstract

Science tells facts using evidence that can be tested or verified with repeatable manners. However, subjective concepts like psychiatric definitions are only from physician’s subjective labeling on patient’s behavioral changes. Is there any robust evidence to these overlapping behaviors of defined psychiatric disorders? When behavior was considered as the evidence of scientific definition, we modern human beings are cheating ourselves through changing the basic concept: evidence is the physical object that can be detected or proved using definitive methods. The de facto situation for us today is how we can face challenging topics like death, life, and our human being ourselves. Even we have substantially developed technologies, and theoretically get advanced on some fields, but we still cannot answer these subjective questions mentioned above, those we intentionally avoid to doing in-depth studies. We need to do reconsideration about these unavoidable topics seriously. Do not have science mask our eyes.

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Keywords

Subjective Definition, Technology, Science, Human Being, Behavior

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How to Cite
Keiser, L. (2017). Modern Human Being: Perspective from Psychiatric Diseases. Science Insights, 2017(7), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.15354/si.17.es028
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