On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...
Yeah, good point. I should get a neuroscience feed with a bit more rigor. I just get the google keyword news search feed. I have read 101-level textbooks and can usually at least tell what is going on without getting overloaded with details. There is a KurzweilAI.net feed that has decent neuroscience articles. > > 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/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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
