Reminds me of how thinking using frequencies rather than computing probabilities is easier and can avoid errors (e.g. a 99% accurate test being positive does not mean 99% likelihood of having disease for a disease with a 1/10,000 prevalence in population).
"reasoning evolved not to complement individual cognition but as an argumentative device" -- and it has more positive effects at social level than at individual level
> and it has more positive effects at social level than at individual level
Now it raises the question should we be reasoning in our head then? Is there a better way to solve intractable math problems for example? Is math itself a red herring created for argumentative purposes?
Interesting idea called transparent self model by Thomas Metzinger, author of The Ego Tunnel where he explains it further.
The gist from my memory of 15+ years ago is that the brain needs to model the world and then itself within the world, creating a model that is transparent to itself, situated in the world.
Trying to get a new release of Video Hub App - my 7+ years passion project to browse videos from local storage in style. Maybe will finally finish the (optional!) facial recognition feature I started 5+ years ago.
"a constructed alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonemic orthography for the English language to replace the inefficiencies and difficulties of conventional spelling"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137203
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