On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote: > I get the feeling from reading my neuroscience newsfeed that most of > passes as science is wild guesses.
Not really. Rather, I think that the wild guesses tend to reach the general public disproportionately often, because they sound sexier... Most empirical neuroscience papers describe the experiments they did pretty carefully. The interpretations are then explicitly presented as optional, and you're free to construct your own way of interpreting the data ;) ... ben g > I guess Descartes started all this > with his wild guess of the pineal gland. I like the book that Dorian > Aur wrote, which I don't understand in detail but get the general > idea, that there is a lot of dogma around. > > > http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120823/Neuroscientists-try-to-decipher-precisely-how-human-brain-constructs-our-sense-of-self.aspx > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-11ac2389 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
