Belligerent Discussion and Truth-Seeking

Rational action and truth-seeking

Seeking truth using different methods

Mathematics and physics are entirely different subjects, both in their methodology and results. The differences are illustrated with how they view randomness, enumeration, and truth. In physics, randomness can be an unknown, an observational error, an unpredictable event, or a quantum mystery. In math it is just part of probability theory. Mathematics has subtle properties of infinities that ph...

Seeking truth on Monte Verita

Department of Biological Sciences, Gilman Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA Departments of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, 0711 New York, New York 10461, USA Corresponding author. Tel: + 1 603 646 8706; Fax: +1 603 646 1347; E-mail: [email protected] Corresponding author. Tel: +1 718 43

Free Information Flow Benefits Truth Seeking

How can we approach the truth in a society? It may depend on various factors. In this paper, using a well-established truth seeking model, we show that the persistent free information flow will bring us to the truth. Here the free information flow is modeled as the environmental random noise that could alter one’s cognition. Without the random noise, the model predicts that the truth can only b...

Abductive Metareasoning for Truth-Seeking Agents

My research seeks to answer the question of how any agent that is tasked with making sense of its world, by finding explanations for evidence (e.g., sensor reports) using domain-general strategies, may accurately and efficiently handle incomplete evidence, noisy evidence, and an incomplete knowledge base. I propose the following answer to the question. The agent should employ an optimal abducti...