Re:Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make D...
by nl on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:26AM
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They attempt to give greater meaning to something than the direct observations support.
I'd argue that an attempt to find a cause for something that is basically random good evidence that the brain is doing a statistical reasoning.
In this case it is pretty much a classical overfitting mistake: the brain thinks that it knows all the data, and everything that happens must be caused by something it knows.
Statistical processes find spurious relationships all the time.
Up-thread I answered how to perform experiments to falsify this.
I'd argue that an attempt to find a cause for something that is basically random good evidence that the brain is doing a statistical reasoning.
In this case it is pretty much a classical overfitting mistake: the brain thinks that it knows all the data, and everything that happens must be caused by something it knows.
Statistical processes find spurious relationships all the time.
Up-thread I answered how to perform experiments to falsify this.