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malteof
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The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist gen...
[Citation needed]
Jensson
on March 4, 2023
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Why would I need a citation to state a theory?
qup
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Because the internet is in a fad where it's very fashionable to require evidence for any claims, and most opinions.
dazc
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Citation?
IshKebab
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The title is stated as fact, not a theory. You have to get all the way to the last sentence in the abstract before they say it's a hypothesis.
Misleading title at best. I would say disingenuous.
Jensson
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Its clickbait, clickbait works, you see lots of discussion here thanks to it (or due to if you don't like it).
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Because they stated a hypothesis. In order to be a theory, it needs to be rooted in data.
AlecSchueler
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It's everyday English though, theory is the common word for what would be called an hypothesis in scientific circles.
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