Re:Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner ...
by raverbashing on Saturday July 28, 2018 @04:24PM
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Most "cognitive scientists" seems to conflate the world with their simplified models. For a field with one of the lowest replication rates (and which won't get better) they seem to take their conclusions more seriously than scientists in hard sciences.
This interview is painfully self contradictory, "there is no inner truth but there is no easy way of solving this", almost in self denial.
"What happens is not what happens. What happens is the story that we tell ourselves about what happens." well, yes
And of course the brain tell stories, and "a deep truth" might not be so deep, but past events and how we handle them ourselves do have an effect (though it might not be so obvious).
In a fundamental level, is the brain chaotic ("deterministic " but unpredictable due to millions of different variables) or does it have a random component (and how much is that)? And what abstractions emerge from the brain's complexity?
This interview is painfully self contradictory, "there is no inner truth but there is no easy way of solving this", almost in self denial.
"What happens is not what happens. What happens is the story that we tell ourselves about what happens." well, yes
And of course the brain tell stories, and "a deep truth" might not be so deep, but past events and how we handle them ourselves do have an effect (though it might not be so obvious).
In a fundamental level, is the brain chaotic ("deterministic " but unpredictable due to millions of different variables) or does it have a random component (and how much is that)? And what abstractions emerge from the brain's complexity?