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Tuesday Dec 18, 2007

Cognitive dissonance, Bayes and simulation

Really fascinating discussion on Mind Hacks about cognitive dissonance (actually, it's about reductionism, but the cognitive dissonance is what interests me.) This is the idea that we rationalise our 'choices' based on external events.

Posted on Dec 18, 07 | 8:18 am |

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