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The Wisdom of Foxes
It’s easy to assume good judgment means using more factors and nuance to make a decision. But that isn’t always true. Expert customs officers deciding which passengers they would submit to a search use less information than novices in makin...
Essays In Support of the Null Hypothesis
There’s a scientific journal called the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis. They exclusively publish papers that do not reach the traditional “statistical significance” threshold (p < 0.05), aiming to give a place for art...
A Cold Dead Universe Full Of Wonder And Meaning
This is how the writer Kasra has described what he calls the philosophy of mechanism:
The world is fundamentally dead, predetermined, and unwittingly, imperturbably subject to the progression of math equations.1
This mechanistic view of...
Are Emotions Constructed?
A review of How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
What is an emotion? It seems like it should be obvious, but here is the opening of a paper titled, fittingly enough, “What is emotion?”:
How Scientists (Don’t) Change Their Minds
How do the views of scientists change?
It’s easy to find overly optimistic or overly pessimistic caricatures. The pessimists portray scientists as stubborn, and the only thing that changes the consensus view is the old guard dying off. The...
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PhD in neuroscience, degrees in philosophy and computer science, postdoctoral training at Harvard. I write about science and philosophy of mind. Occasional science fiction author.
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