Alchemy
Right now I'm working on the second part of my crazy project. I use my theory of behavior as a guide to reinterpret and reconnect available data from the worlds of neuroscience and psychiatry.
Everything looks promising so far. Various facts are being attached to the central model of a theory without any conflicts. But it's a long run. The model still can be wrong. And I worry, that even if everything works as expected, we will hit the wall at some moment. Available data is not unending. It's too soon to say anything.
Meanwhile, I got a question in my head. Is this science? The project itself. Or it's more like an alchemy of sorts. Playing dice with the devil, looking for ancient wisdom lying in plain sight, with a goal to find a cure for all diseases?
On the one hand, I make observations, use information from scientific journals, make hypothesis, test them, set up experiments, use all sorts of data analysis techniques, and get other professionals to review things. At the current second stage the project looks more and more like a "proper science".
On the other hand, it's like a house of cards. The basement of it, the theory of behavior itself, is essentially derived from some highly subjective observations from mental patients and priests from various religions. Of course, it's not only that, but still. A lot of things in the very core of it cannot be properly measured at this moment. We need them to construct a mechanical model that connects patterns of behavior and diseases, and it kind of works, but we have to assume some things without any solid proof. This makes the whole thing not 100% scientific. Or, better to say, 0% scientific. It's quite an interesting situation.