Comments on: Honesty and deception http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=843 Exploring what it means to be thinking matter Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:06:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mary http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=843&cpage=1#comment-7423 Mary Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:15:39 +0000 http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=843#comment-7423 Good point; I like the weather analogy. Funny, this also applies in a completely different context. I was just talking the other day about how one of my problems with writing fiction is knowing when to use minute-by-minute detail, when to average out, and most important, how to shift between them. Anyway, Sandy G. at the Mouse Trap has some <a href="http://the-mouse-trap.blogspot.com/2007/07/true-lies-more-thoughts-on-autism-and.html" rel="nofollow">interesting thoughts</a> on honesty, deception, autism, normality, and schizophrenia, spinning off of the same Baron-Cohen article. Good point; I like the weather analogy. Funny, this also applies in a completely different context. I was just talking the other day about how one of my problems with writing fiction is knowing when to use minute-by-minute detail, when to average out, and most important, how to shift between them.

Anyway, Sandy G. at the Mouse Trap has some interesting thoughts on honesty, deception, autism, normality, and schizophrenia, spinning off of the same Baron-Cohen article.

]]> By: Patrick http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=843&cpage=1#comment-7412 Patrick Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:01:44 +0000 http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=843#comment-7412 If all the moment-to-moment truths add up to the whole truth... there might not be much of a difference, except who gets to do the adding. OTOH, biases in which moments are reported would bias the overall result & it's a much less efficient means of communicating. You also create the possibility for all kinds of feedback loops. Sometimes you want to know how hot it got yesterday, sometimes you want to track minute-by-minute temperature; appropriateness is context-dependent. If all the moment-to-moment truths add up to the whole truth… there might not be much of a difference, except who gets to do the adding. OTOH, biases in which moments are reported would bias the overall result & it’s a much less efficient means of communicating. You also create the possibility for all kinds of feedback loops.

Sometimes you want to know how hot it got yesterday, sometimes you want to track minute-by-minute temperature; appropriateness is context-dependent.

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