I think it's good to be suspicious of things that we consider out of our control, but it seems to me that suspicion is pretty "built in" to modern psychiatric medicine and I don't have any reason to doubt their conclusions around these conditions.
Those are all very fair things to think - though it occurs to me that feeling confident about the accuracy of your understanding of the "complexity and inconsistency of the underlying problem space" greatly depends on the judgement of the same people whose judgement you don't trust.
That said I think "how should we talk about and hold things when we are uncertain" is an important and interesting discussion in itself. One does know some things about some things - but not all things about all things. Language is hard to use well, but we could improve our use of it!
> though it occurs to me that feeling confident about the accuracy of your understanding of the "complexity and inconsistency of the underlying problem space" greatly depends on the judgement of the same people whose judgement you don't trust.
I'd say: it can depend on this, to some degree, but does not necessarily.
For me it's both: the problem space is too complex for any human to understand, plus I do not trust The Experts, because they constantly demonstrate that epistemology is not a first class concept in their model of reality.
This space holds massive potential for human benefit,it's a shame so many people have such strong aversions to it....being a conspiracy theorist, I often wonder if this aversion is 100% organic.
