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AMA | May 2022

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

CHAPTER

Is There a Bias in Our Brains?

We believe that enshby was low in the past because of a very strong bias in our brains. But without the past hypothesis, it's much more likely that air molecules randomly push the wineglass off the desk than your swinging arm did. So now we know that we're biased, shouldn't be correct for our bias and choose to believe whatever we know to be more likely? Why we why should we continue to believe the past hypothesis? Well, this is a case where a bias is a good thing,. ecause our bias is certainly a yes, our bias is correct, let just put it that way.

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