stuhlmueller + causality   10

The evolution of superstitious and superstition-like behaviour (pdf)
An amalgam of Hamilton’s rule and Pascal’s wager shows how natural selection can favour strategies that lead to frequent errors in attributing causality as long as the occasional correct response carries a large fitness benefit.
causality  evolutionary  psychology 
september 2008 by stuhlmueller
Light Cone
Generates a RSS feed of the stars within your personal light cone, the boundary of events that your life might have influenced.
astronomy  causality  mattweb  art 
june 2008 by stuhlmueller
On Letting Go of Cause and Effect as an Explanatory Framework
"our dancing in clubs will alter the music which will alter our dancing, and the music and the visualisation/dancing will be translations of one another, and no way to tell which is first, because none is."
causality  explanation  mattwebb  *interesting 
june 2008 by stuhlmueller
Probabilistic Causation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
All else being equal, causes raise the probabilities of their effects. Thus, the relationship between cause and effect can be modeled using the tools of probability theory.
philosophy  causality  pearl 
june 2008 by stuhlmueller
Causation and Manipulability (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Introduction to manipulablity theories of causation, according to which causes are to be regarded as handles or devices for manipulating effects.
causality  philosophy  pearl 
june 2008 by stuhlmueller
Reasoning with Cause and Effect (pdf)
Transcript of a lecture by Judea Pearl that introduces his approach to a formalization of causality.
causality  research  pearl 
june 2008 by stuhlmueller
Bayesianism and Causality, or, Why I am only a Half-Bayesian (Judea Pearl)
"The bulk of human knowledge is organized around causal, not probabilistic relationships, and the grammar of probability calculus is insufficient for capturing those relationships."
bayes  probabilitytheory  causality 
may 2008 by stuhlmueller

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