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0 pointsJiocus3y ago0 comments

The psychology of split-brain is a nice gateway to 'The Bicameral Mind', a major theme about how the conception of the AI's works in the series Westworld. Nice!

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leobg3y ago· 1 in thread

Thank you. I am, in fact, reading it. Fascinating read. (How come all the best books were written in the 70s? Just survivership bias?)

jychang3y ago

Because the 1970s had bad science that was poorly replicated, especially in psychology.

Just because a theory sounds nice and seems to make sense doesn’t mean it’s scientific

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