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Johnjoe McFadden PHD - QUANTUM BIOLOGY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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Simple Is Cutting Away With Occam's Razor

In his new book, David Wheeler argues that simplicity is the essence of modern science. But he struggles to grasp how a simple model could reflect a complex reality. He says we can't say it'd be much simpler if there was only one planet out there. And Bayesian reasoning always searches for the simplest explanation - and symbol models give you a higher probability of predicting data.

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