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>But we actually reason in time. I love the way you phrase it. It's a wild hypothesis but I suspect that good (Bayesian style of) thinking requires metabolic e
by paraschopra 9y ago
>But we actually reason in time.
I love the way you phrase it. It's a wild hypothesis but I suspect that good (Bayesian style of) thinking requires metabolic energy in our brain that's a magnitude of order or more as compared to intuitive A -> B style of thinking. This is why perhaps our brains avoids the former.
- analog31 9y agoWhat is Bayesian thinking? When I took statistics in college, Bayes' theorem, and conditional probability, were presented in fairly straightforward mathematical terms. There was no special form of thinking associated with it, but maybe Bayes had other things up his sleeve.