Where do the hypotheses come from? Data-driven learning in science and the brain.
Journal:
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Published Date:
Dec 6, 2023
Abstract
Everyone agrees that testing hypotheses is important, but Bowers et al. provide scant details about where hypotheses about perception and brain function should come from. We suggest that the answer lies in considering how information about the outside world could be acquired - that is, learned - over the course of evolution and development. Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide one tool to address this question.