ABSTRACT
Bayesian inference successfully accounts for perception mechanisms: given ambiguous inputs, our brain reconstructs the most likely interpretation. “Obviously Education aims to go beyond that knowledge. Education invites us to conceive new disciplines, such as reading, writing, formal symbolic arithmetic, which have not been anticipated by evolution. But we will ’recycle’ old brain systems for these new cultural uses.” The Bayesian brain hypothesis postulates that the proportion of time during which the subject adopts an interpretation is his Bayesian credence in this interpretation. A simple but convincing explanation of the scandal of induction is to assume a priori that all things are structured in the form of a tree, like the phylogenetic tree of life. One of the most fundamental faculties that our Bayesian brains learn in childhood is the theory of mind. It’s the ability to reflect on what other people think, and to use that model of another’s thinking to make predictions or learn new concepts.
