One of the most important epistemic skills is placing a surprising claim in its “causal neighborhood”pic.twitter.com/l4U4VlDpGs
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A different but also highly useful skill is imagining other causal neighborhoods. I do it by asking myself "what else might this be true off?" So here's a study where they measure cutaneous "respiration" via bird hind quarters from 1995.. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/199/2/451.full.pdf …pic.twitter.com/sSnefoC2uw
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might be leg breathing! "small quantities of carbon dioxide were detected in the body chamber in most experiments. We assume that this represented leakage between the head and body chambers, although it could have been partially due to fecal or cutaneous losses of CO2."
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now I wish I’d picked an more interesting claim
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