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

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Are We Telling the Wrong Stories?

We are no better at explaining and predicting behaviour of other people than Homer was when he wrote iliad. We startid out with this hypothesis, with this research programm of vindicating the hypothesis. The way in which we attempt to advance the research programme is by making predictions,. seeing whether they are borne out, and then revising our hypotheses so that they will improve.

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