How the Brain Constructs Reality: Interview with Andy Clark
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar
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The Implications of Coherentism for Epistemology
My background is epistemology so all through the book I'm thinking what are the implications of this and so that's my mind immediately went to like echo chambers and misinformation and conspiracy theories when you were talking about getting trapped in these kinds of cycles. It reminded me a little bit of what uh one Epistemologist named Lawrence Bonjour his defensive of view called coherentism back in the day he later changed his mind but it was very similar. He also built in this part where it had to be constantly checking against the world to confirm itself. When it goes wrong our brains don't know what to take seriously and what not to take seriously, which is kind of neural equivalent of fake
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