This distinction doesn't seem to track common usage: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=I+think+they+will+win%2CI+believe+they+will+win&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CI%20think%20they%20will%20win%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CI%20believe%20they%20will%20win%3B%2Cc0 …
Neuroscientists in my family automatically discredit anything Ramachandran says as pseudoscience. I don’t know whether they are justified in doing so.
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I'd certainly believe his neuroscience may be speculative or wrong, but unless he's lying be has seen some weird stuff and tried weird things that seem to work. It's not like anyone understands how the ol' jelly blob does its thing.
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Yeah; my family’s view is that brains are arbitrarily weird, especially in pathology, and we basically don’t understand them at all. But (perhaps they would say) VSR’s stories embroider apophenia into upper-middle-brow clickbait. (Again, I have no personal opinion)
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