X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fcomment-on-the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-and-probabilistic-inference.md;h=e1a00c32786fafc786bf04676bc5a048e23aeb1a;hp=91c332b266b9a3730ef0c64b5f97db44448a51f7;hb=cce05bd376a2671381317d55365326f05271215a;hpb=ea6dc7b697163f19a43865cee3d43aa057fc026f diff --git a/content/drafts/comment-on-the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-and-probabilistic-inference.md b/content/drafts/comment-on-the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-and-probabilistic-inference.md index 91c332b..e1a00c3 100644 --- a/content/drafts/comment-on-the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-and-probabilistic-inference.md +++ b/content/drafts/comment-on-the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis-and-probabilistic-inference.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Our authors discuss an experiment where people are briefly shown a color, and th Our authors propose to explain this with a model in which a stimulus is encoded in the brain as both a fine-grained representation of what was actually seen (this-and-such color perception, with some noise/measurement-error), and as a category ("green"). Then reconstruction of the stimulus from the both the fine-grained representation and the category, will be biased towards the center of the category, with more bias when the fine-grained representation is more uncertain (as in the delayed condition). -The model gains further support from a similar "two-alternative forced choice" experiment, where people try to tell the difference between the original color and a distractor, rather than picking from a color wheel. +The model gains further support from a similar "two-alternative forced choice" experiment, where people try to tell the difference between the original color and a distractor, rather than picking from a color wheel: @@ -27,6 +27,3 @@ Bayesian reasoning! [The answer is always Bayesian reasoning.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QrhAeKBkm2WsdRYao/searching-for-bayes-structure) - - -