Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTheodore Schwartz: belief
21 May 2025 Conversations with Tyler Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
“I think, yes, there’s always going to be politics involved, and we always come to any problem from a unique single perspective, and institutions are going to have their biases.”
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- 21 May 2025
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…Do you think there are areas of science, though, where the institutions are so screwed up that you don’t actually trust the product of what is coming out, and there’s some systematic bias in the ideas being generated? I think, yes, there’s always going to be politics involved, and we always come to any problem from a unique single perspective, and institutions are going to have their biases. Yes, that is true, but in the long run, the scientific method will figure it out, and there will be one right answer. That institution — whatever their bias is — will be proven wrong in the long run. Now, those people might be dead and won’t be able to apologize at that point. We’re not in the long run now. Like the food pyramid — it used to tell us, in essence, eat more carbohydrates. It’s not obvious that was the right thing to say. It’s probably the wrong thing to have said.…
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