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Philosophy of Sciences

2017 year, number 3

THE DIGITAL AND THE ANALOGOUS IN MEDICINE AND PSYCHOLOGY

E. V. Kosilova
Lomonosov Moscow State University, 24, Lomonosovskiy av., Moscow, 119991 Russia
Keywords: дигитальное, дигитализация, аналоговое, психиатрия, психология, понимание, digital, digitalization, analogous, psychiatry, psychology, understanding

Abstract

The paper deals with the problems of digitalization of psychiatry and psychology, digitalization here implies expression in numbers. The question is whether we may express understanding and general cognition could be in numbers. The author argues that understanding demands an analogous (not digital) mechanism. But in psychiatry, understanding is essentially necessary to provide the right diagnosis. So, in psychiatry, digitalization will lead to a wrong diagnostic. As to psychology, the total digitalization (questionnaires, statistic conclusions) is also impossible, but psychology resists such a trend, while psychiatry is helpless against it.