added by Laura Pike Seeley and · updated 9d ago
Your mind needs chaos
- one of the latest big theories in neuroscience says that humans are fundamentally creatures of prediction, and not only is creativity not at odds with that, but it actually goes hand in hand with improving our predictive power. Life itself, in this view, is one big process of creatively optimizing prediction as a survival strategy in a universe oth... See more
from Your mind needs chaos by Oshan Jarow
Laura Pike Seeley added 13d ago
- Rather, in our brain’s pursuit to plan, survive, and achieve our goals, it has learned how to guess what the world is actually like based on incoming sensory data. Those predictions are always uncertain, at least to a degree, which is why the goal of predictive processing is often described as minimizing that uncertainty.
But an optimal relationship... See morefrom Your mind needs chaos by Oshan Jarow
Laura Pike Seeley added 13d ago