What we might call the “soul” in this view is the perceptual expression of a deep continuity between mind and life.

The seductive intuition that conscious experiences seem nonphysical encourages a “naïve dualism”

The same reasoning holds for the self too.

The second defining feature is the feeling that I could have done otherwise.

Perceiving the state of mind of another is a crucial ability for social creatures

A chair has a mind-independent existence; chairness does not.

mind and consciousness are forms of information processing which can be implemented by brains, but for which biological brains are not strictly necessary.

free energy is basically the same thing as sensory prediction error.

a mathematical recipe for going from what we already know (the prior) to what we should believe next (the posterior), based on what we are learning now (the likelihood).