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Re:Myths about how the brain works by steverb on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:39AM (#26343758)
I would further add that those oversimplified concepts of how the brain works have hung around because they are useful for us as an abstraction to think about how our brain works.

They may be bad abstractions at a lower level of detail, but for general purposes they seem to be useful enough.

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Re:Myths about how the brain works by pessimizer on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:13AM (#26344227)
What are they useful for, though? The usefulness of wrong models, and why they hang around so long, mainly seems to be to provide income to people selling solutions.

Solutions offered based on bad simple metaphorical models have the benefit of being intuitive, so they stick around.

Theory-theory is the Efficient Market Hypothesis applied to common sense.

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Re:Myths about how the brain works by lukas099 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:29PM (#26348633)
They are useful as a standard way to talk about the brain. If I say I am 'right-brained' in casual conversation, most people in my culture know what I mean.
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