On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
Belief-conditional things. Audio version.
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Belief-conditional things. Audio version.

TL;DR: A little winter story about making beliefs come true. Epistemic status: this is >90% written to amuse. Not 100% though.
Jan Hendrik Kirchner
May 22, 2022
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On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
Belief-conditional things - things that only exist when you believe in them
🎵 Do you believe... 🎵 It is the season, and I just finished watching the 2003 classic "Elf" with Will Ferrell as "Buddy", a human raised among elves at the North Pole who travels to New York to reunite with his biological father and to save Christmas. The movie got me thinking…
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