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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.
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
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
... See moreAlexander Douglas • Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
probabilities attach themselves to the descriptions of events and not to events themselves.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
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
... See moreNick Chater • Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain
player, the more likely you will think him to be an NBA player. They had a hunch that people, when they formed judgments,
Michael Lewis • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
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.
Nick Chater • Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain
Third, we are fearful creatures and go to great lengths to preserve a sense of certainty, even when we know it to be false.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
