Bayesian rationalists think prediction is what thinking is. Critical rationalists deny many kinds of prediction are even possible, highlighting the growth of knowledge is unpredictable, and that most interesting things rest on this ever-evolving knowledge.https://twitter.com/coponder/status/1239808796647555072 …
I'd love to hear more on what you think the brain's main function is! The thing is, what you (and Lulie and Deutsch) are saying is not incompatible with the brain being built on tiny prediction events - those prediction events don't have to be about *reality* though.
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The brain probably does a lot of things and prediction may be one of them. But you didn't make that claim. You claimed something *much* stronger namely that rationality is about prediction. The fact that the brain happens to make predictions doesn't imply your claim on its own.
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You are conjecturing that because the brain makes predictions and because the mind can be rational that it is the case that rationality arises from prediction. But explain why that is the case?
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They're predictions about future input to our bodies, which can be totally unrelated to reality. “If our perceptual systems evolved by natural selection, then the probability that we see reality as it actually is, in any way, is zero. Precisely zero,” said Donald Hoffman."
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I doubt the brain truly has a main function. I suspect the mind, the software running in the brain that we identify with, does. I believe it is a conjecturing engineer in how to solve problems.
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What I mean is that the brain -- the hardware -- probably runs many functions not directly related to our rationality. Tiny predictions, like Hawkins thinks, is probably one of them. It's just not strongly related to our rational capacities. Separate interacting modules maybe.
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