Can the Scientific Method be used to study the Subjective Universe?
Yes. People who say otherwise don’t have much experience in psychological science. The subjective universe can be objectively measured. For example, lets look at sleep. Sleep is in many ways a psychological construct. Now, when you deprive people of sleep, they are likely to report a number of subjective emotions. However, even if you entirely ignored the subjective feelings, you can still gain some insight into how they feel through objective methods – observing their eating patterns, their personal grooming or watching them slowly lose weight and die (the dying part hasn’t been done in experimental neuroscience of course). And there you have the scientific method being used to study the subjective universe. If it can be observed, it can be studied using the scientific method. Emotions can be observed and so can many other aspects of the subjective universe. Of course, there is still an argument present for behaviourism. Look into Skinners black box. Skinner didn’t believe that the su
