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All of human reasoning and understanding comes from matching our observations statistically with potential causes. You may heat up a tea kettle a thousand time
by sgk284 9y ago
All of human reasoning and understanding comes from matching our observations statistically with potential causes.
You may heat up a tea kettle a thousand times with a flame and conclude that the flame is heating the tea kettle, but perhaps every time the flame was too small and too far and it was in fact another source of energy hitting it from the environment warming it.
Our understanding of the world comes from substantial enough correlation that it moves into the realm of cause-and-effect. Though admittedly we often assume this too quickly.
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- baking 9y agoBut you have to be able to have a control. I heard Barbara Sakitt speak around 1976-77. She was the author of the widely cited "Counting Every Quantum" (1972) and she basically said that her original methodology was flawed. Unfortunately, no one cites her later work and I don't have access to the full text of "Information received from unseen lights" (1976) which I think was the paper she was presenting.