Someone noted through a backchannel that the thing I’m trying to say in the model/error/noise section is maybe just “rather than treating some neural phenomenon statistically, it’s better to engage with that phenomenon as concrete mechanism [or meaning-laden].” That’s maybe super hard for high-complexity, hard to measure, or pre-paradigmatic contexts—which is why people often start or finish with statistics. Anyway, there’s a map/territory thing I’m circling, here, in not the best way. Or it’s hard because of friction between mechanism versus telos frames. They may chime in; mistakes mine.
Someone noted through a backchannel that the thing I’m trying to say in the model/error/noise section is maybe just “rather than treating some neural phenomenon statistically, it’s better to engage with that phenomenon as concrete mechanism [or meaning-laden].” That’s maybe super hard for high-complexity, hard to measure, or pre-paradigmatic contexts—which is why people often start or finish with statistics. Anyway, there’s a map/territory thing I’m circling, here, in not the best way. Or it’s hard because of friction between mechanism versus telos frames. They may chime in; mistakes mine.