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The presence of this second option – choosing actions that result in predictable sensory experiences – is what makes the free energy principle a candidate GUT of the brain. Rather than just explaining features of sensory processing, this principle can encompass decisions about behaviour as well.

They have decided to be that: a borrowed self to fill the blank inside. But this – our profound ontological unoriginality – is an embarrassing fact, which we go to some lengths to hide from ourselves. Proving the theory that drives this philosophy therefore requires more than just rational argument. It is also necessary to overcome some of our psyc

probabilities attach themselves to the descriptions of events and not to events themselves.

Yet the contents of our hidden depths seem to remain perpetually elusive. Freudian psychoanalysts can speculate about our hidden fears and desires; psychologists and neuroscientists can attempt to draw subtle and highly indirect conclusions from actions, heart-rate, skin conductance, pupil dilation and the rate of blood flow in the brain. But no hi

player, the more likely you will think him to be an NBA player. They had a hunch that people, when they formed judgments,

Scientific models that seek to predict the consequences of human actions with some reasonable accuracy—such as game theoretical models of economic behavior—for the most part ignore human individuality in favor of aggregated outcomes.

In short, common-sense psychology sees our thought and behaviour as rooted in reasoning, but a lot of human intelligence seems to be a matter of finding complex patterns.

Third, we are fearful creatures and go to great lengths to preserve a sense of certainty, even when we know it to be false.