http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog A journal about cybernetics, systems thinking, general systems theory, and the practice of effective management. en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:41:52 -0800 Statistics Blogware dsoul http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/6/1621902.html http://dsoul.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/6/1621902.html Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:46:42 -0800 <a title="Psychology | Bayes rules | Economist.com" href="http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5354696&amp;no_jw_tran=1&amp;no_na_tran=1">Psychology | Bayes rules | Economist.com</a> Recently, however, Bayes's ideas have made a comeback among computer scientists trying to design software with human-like intelligence. Bayesian reasoning now lies at the heart of leading internet search engines and automated “help wizards”. That has prompted some psychologists to ask if the human brain itself might be a Bayesian-reasoning machine. They suggest that the Bayesian capacity to draw strong inferences from sparse data could be crucial to the way the mind perceives the world, plans actions, comprehends and learns language, reasons from correlation to causation, and even understands the goals and beliefs of other minds. Main Page Statistics cognition intelligence reasoning Bayesian brain statistics bayes