By reading a paper by F.Baldini "Freud's Line of Reasoning", (Article FREUD’S LINE OF REASONING - A note about the epistemic and c...
) I found the application of a black box model to test the analyst construction with reference to the symptom. The application is the following: the analyst does not know anything about the causes of a specific symptom and then he needs to treat the system that provoked the symptom as a black box. The methodology used to solve this situation is simply to apply some inputs to the system that are the so-called "constructions" that could either be true or false. After the construction is communicated to the patient, the symptom could either stay the same or ameliorate/worsen. Assuming that the modifications are indicators of a true construction (in the paper the methodology is explained), then it is possible to retrieve the cause of the symptom and so the box becomes white.I guess this is possible because the input is the attempt to find the cause, i.e. transforming the blackbox in a white one!
I would like to know if there are similar examples in science.
Please advise.
Many thanks.
Maria Vittoria Ceschi
Okay, it is now clear to me... Actually I was missing the fact that if the observer also controls input, the investigation turns into an experiment, and hypotheses about cause and effect can be tested directly. Indeed the testing technique that is used is the so called "cause-effect graph".
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