must make predictions with sparse information using sparse information from past

… must make predictions with sparse information using sparse information from past experiences in real time. most of our decisions are such errors, but we recalculate and adapt and adjust moment by moment, and our memory reassembles success or failure from fragments.


Source date (UTC): 2019-09-17 22:08:49 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1174082809272647681

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@SamHarrisOrg Free Will like most philosophical parlor games is just a sophism, that frames (by suggestion) choice as a via positiva dependent upon knowledge, rather than prediction from field consisting largely of errors (via negativa). A suitably complex robot, like us,…

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@SamHarrisOrg Free Will like most philosophical parlor games is just a sophism, that frames (by suggestion) choice as a via positiva dependent upon knowledge, rather than prediction from field consisting largely of errors (via negativa). A suitably complex robot, like us,…

Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1174082438508752896

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