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jrineakter
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Imagine a little

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So basically, when something happens quite often, we generalize it, simplify it, and make it a general truth. Often, that's how induction works. Here, on Wikipedia, it talks about a probabilistic basis, which means when we have the impression that the probability is high. So when something happens quite often, we generalize it, simplify it, and make it a general truth.

And our brain has a limited memory. Our memory is limited and our memory is a big machine that ultimately serves to induce, that is to say to make generalities and to simplify. So we observe things with our senses, we observe them, we generalize them, that is to say we say to ourselves "well, I observed something 10 times, so this thing is always true", and we simplify. So we will also tend to remove the details. I saw something, it wasn't always exactly the same thing, but I will consider that it is the same thing. So we generalize, we simplify. And our brain, to do that, creates stories.


ake the following example, take memories. Do you think it is easier to remember lots of events that are a bit randomly taken from each other or is it easier to remember a story that gives a logical link to these events? Imagine, if you want to remember 10 events from your life, it is often easier to link them together, to tell a story that links uk whatsapp number data these elements, these events, together, rather than trying to remember them separately, because it requires much less effort from our brain and it takes up less space in our brain.

So suddenly, we will tend to create stories for ourselves, to tell ourselves stories in the form of induction. We generalize, we simplify enormously. And, so to perhaps simplify once again or summarize once again, we can say that induction is to go from a set of particular facts to the general. And since the general takes up less space in our memory than lots of particular facts, well our brain is fond of that.

But there is a risk in fact. There is a risk and the risk or in any case the disadvantage is that this compression, the fact of generalizing and simplifying so that it takes up less space in our brain, has the effect of reducing the degree of apparent chance. In fact, by doing this, we give the impression that everything makes sense, everything has a logical sequence and there is no chance.
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