The core of the problem:
Someone told me that humans do and must think in a bayesian way at some level b/c it’s the only way that works.
No link to that someone? If you can remember who it was, you should go and argue with them. To everyone else, this is a straw man.
(Certainly there are researchers looking for Bayes structure in low-level neural processing, but those investigations focus on tasks far below human cognition.)
Here’s someone saying it again by quoting Yudkowsky saying it:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/56e/do_people_think_in_a_bayesian_or_popperian_way/3w7o
Some straw man… I thought people would be familiar with this kind of thing without me having to quote it.
The core of the problem:
No link to that someone? If you can remember who it was, you should go and argue with them. To everyone else, this is a straw man.
(Certainly there are researchers looking for Bayes structure in low-level neural processing, but those investigations focus on tasks far below human cognition.)
Here’s someone saying it again by quoting Yudkowsky saying it:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/56e/do_people_think_in_a_bayesian_or_popperian_way/3w7o
Some straw man… I thought people would be familiar with this kind of thing without me having to quote it.