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3618 | Only experiments can settle disagreements between rival explanations [Descartes] |
Full Idea: I observe almost no individual effect without immediately knowing that it can be deduced in many different ways, ..and I know of no way to resolve this but by experiments such that the results are different according to different explanations. | |
From: René Descartes (A Discourse on Method [1637], §6.65) |
7369 | Brains are essentially anticipation machines [Dennett] |
Full Idea: All brains are, in essence, anticipation machines. | |
From: Daniel C. Dennett (Consciousness Explained [1991], 7.2) | |
A reaction: This would necessarily, I take it, make them induction machines. So brains will only evolve in a world where induction is possible, which is one where there a lot of immediately apprehensible regularities. |