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by Chu4eeno 3 days ago
Didn't neuroscience some big scandals about bad statistics and overstating their findings (in addition to normal issues like replication)? Look up at least the "dead salmon study" (hint: it's related to fMRI, and you can probably guess its conclusions from its nickname). The "Voodoo Correlations" and "Cluster Failure" papers are also a bit eye-opening.

In general we (humans) need to be humble about the limitations of our knowledge about how we function, it's an insanely complicated problem.

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> In general we (humans) need to be humble about the limitations of our knowledge about how we function, it's an insanely complicated problem.

We do.

Which is why we shouldn't be assuming we're more than just probability engines, or be assuming we have more consciousness than a neural network.