Every few years, there seems to be some brain theory that appears to have immense explanatory power to a lot of people and turns out to be largely off the mark, like "left brain/right brain", "mirror neurons", and now "dopamine reward". Will this ever stop? And what's next?
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Replying to @Plinz
isn't "the brain is a classical computer" the mother of all of these "pop science" over-simplifications? ;)
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Replying to @samim
To be a computer means little more than the ability to move from state to state in a nonrandom fashion. Sometimes I get the impression that you oppose reductive thought because your religion is an essentialist version of the god of the gaps.
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Replying to @Plinz
I'm neither religious, nor do i subscribe to any theological ideas, but guilty of occasionally pondering the meaning of our existence. Not against reductive thought at all, but refuse to live in a reality where all fundamental questions appear to be "answered".
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Replying to @samim
I appear to have moved from an inscrutable universe of essences that animated reality, mind and consciousness into a clean one that I built from the ground up and has all the same observables as the former. Why not turn off the lights in the universe of essences?
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Replying to @Plinz
When you say "clean", your implying the "old" perspective was "dirty"? Is that a analytically sound "clean/dirty", or more of a personal feeling?
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Yes, the old perspective involves holding beliefs independently of priors, which is epistemologically unclean.
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