Black Cats

Any explanation of the causes of human behaviour that refers to the ‘truth’ is probably false.

A truth could only be proven by statistical analysis of data collected from a number of alternative scenarios of a single event relating to the human behaviour in question.

You’d need to run the scenario more times than there are variables (like Infinity minus one, or so) in order to get enough data to avoid over-fitting your model.

Without wormholes and time machines this is not as yet possible.

In the meantime, anyone is free to interpret human behaviour and assign semi-rational explanations as to the causes. 

But these are guesses at best, and most probably only ever correct by accident. When, you’d never know.

This is especially the case if the observer is another black cat in the same box, impacting the results of the experiment.

It is worth noting that, in reality, explanations of human behaviour are usually derived from patterns of repeat behaviours rather than a single event.

The human brain then runs a Fourier transform over the morass of data to derive a result that is improved by using the square root of the signal to noise of the data, but the result is most likely still rooted because of the black cat problem.

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