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History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

CHAPTER

The Garden of Forking Paths

Brian Cam: Having a great wealth of facts doesn't mean that those are going to resolve into one correct narrative. He says the more disparate the data, the more chaotic it feels. The more likely we are to rely on obviousness is the more likely we need these kind of heuristics or "dot, dot, dot" Brian Cam: I would love at some point to talk about myelination and also just, you know, the fact that when you do these kind of pattern recognitions and you use a concept, the concept kind of becomes more ingrained each time.

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