François CholletVerified account

which is why I like "Connections" by James Burke.

That’s the ‘story’ part

reflective pattern recognition is comforting because it suggests "this leads to that" tidiness in what most see as an uncomfortably untidy world. in general its okay to do that unless you plan on using the false pattern to dictate your behavior & decisions in the present.

Not to mention alterations and omissions

Eso lo saben todos los historiadores; aún así es necesario narrar.

Overfitting common too? Handy metaphors for historical/archaeological inquiry!

With history we can not check if narrative is correct. In science we can check it by repeating experiments and calculating uncertainty.

This is also what we do when we look at our own individual pasts. It seems to fit into a narrative whereas what was actually happening to us was quite unstructured!