Setayesh Dashti’s Reviews > The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind > Status Update
Setayesh Dashti
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Just as birds don’t have to solve the Navier-Stroke equations every time they flap their wings for aerodynamics to be useful in understanding bird flight, we don’t need neural networks -natural or artificial- to be explicitly performing Bayesian inference for it to be useful in understanding inductive inference.
— Oct 25, 2026 06:27AM
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Setayesh Dashti
is on page 275 of 400
Generation flowed down the graph, and inference flowed up. (describing Bayesian networks)
— Oct 26, 2026 03:00PM
Setayesh Dashti
is on page 123 of 400
Rosch’s experiments are supposed to show the weaknesses of nativism but to be honest it seems to me that all her results are better explained from a nativist perspective…
— Sep 19, 2026 09:58AM