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I would further add that those oversimplified concepts of how the brain works have hung around because they are useful for us as an abstraction to think about h
by steverb 6y ago
I would further add that those oversimplified concepts of how the brain works have hung around because they are useful for us as an abstraction to think about how our brain works.
They may be bad abstractions at a lower level of detail, but for general purposes they seem to be useful enough.
- pessimizer 6y agoWhat are they useful for, though? The usefulness of wrong models, and why they hang around so long, mainly seems to be to provide income to people selling solutions. Solutions offered based on bad simple metaphorical models have the benefit of being intuitive, so they stick around. Theory-theory is the Efficient Market Hypothesis applied to common sense.
- lukas099 6y agoThey are useful as a standard way to talk about the brain. If I say I am 'right-brained' in casual conversation, most people in my culture know what I mean.