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In defense of epicycles: Embracing complexity in psychological explanations

2021-03-22

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<p>As simpler scientific theories are widely considered preferable to more convoluted ones, it is plausible (and widely assumed, especially in recent Bayesian models of cognition) that biological learners are also guided by simplicity when acquiring mental representations, and that formal measures of complexity might indicate which learning problems are harder and which ones are easier. However, the history of sci...

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10.31234/osf.io/bu4m5
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