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BI 139 Marc Howard: Compressed Time and Memory

Brain Inspired

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The Advantage of Having a Log Scale

The ig explains why the brain uses a log scale to represent things. He says that if you were not allowed to count, your estimates of numbers would appear on a log scale. The same is true of the non verbal number system. So choosing a log ais equivalent to making an uninformed prior about what you're going to find out in the world.

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