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The same is true for any assumption that holds the mind or its pathologies to be inexplicable in some fundamental sense: it can only lead to extremely bad explanations. We have no choice but to treat mental illness as unknown but knowable .

1+1=3.

In this respect, Bayesian inference is more intuitive at its core and in closer alignment with our natural mode of probabilistic reasoning than frequentist inference. For example, we are more interested in the probability that 1 treatment is superior to another (Bayesian probability) than in the probability of obtaining certain data assuming the... See more

And speaking of things that work even more less good, the technology... sucks? It fundamentally doesn’t do the thing that its investors and diehard fans say it does. It just strings together text that is statistically plausible. And every new alleged advancement comes with some invested airhead billionaire boasting about how the computer is as... See more

I don't want to manage knowledge. I want to live it.

Reciprocal Narrowing— refers to how the brain adapts to new experiences and environments. When we are immersed in addiction, this cognitive narrowing obliterates our capacity to see multiple perspectives. We become singularly focused on the thing, or ‘object,’ we are after. As a result, we become increasingly dependent on securing this object in... See more

For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment”... See more