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[My follow-up for the previous post.] My theory of knowledge acquisition is based on two assumptions: First, data alone is not sufficient to build belief-state/world associations. We already know that causal relationships cannot be derived from data alone (start with Pearl’s work if you want to go down this particular rabbit hole). We’d need certain [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the problem of knowing. If we believe current theories of the mind, knowledge is partially about belief states in the brain. You have them, I have them, but what are they? Let’s imagine for the moment that belief states are patterns of activation in the brain. The neurons propagate [...]