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AMA | March 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Why Do Human Beings Invent Priors?

No one is entitled to their own likelihoods, the likelihoods or functions that tell you the likelihood of getting certain data given some proposition being true. So where do they come from? They come from the fact that we are human beings embedded in the world. Our brains are not blank slates. We have models of the world. And brain as part of the physical universe has opinions. Whether you like it or not.

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