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"And not only that, if you take active inference seriously and still wanna deploy a Cartesian skepticism argument, you'll have to grant that the very environment which the active PP-agent exploits is something besides the brain doing its guessing, something Matrix-style." — 5 hours, 13 min ago
"And not only that, if you take active inference seriously and still wanna deploy a Cartesian skepticism argument, you'll have to grant that the very environment which the active PP-agent exploits is something besides the brain doing its guessing, something Matrix-style." — 5 hours, 13 min ago
“If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything.”
― Freedom Evolves
― Freedom Evolves
“Evolution is all about turning "bugs" into "features," turning "noise" into "signal," and the fuzzy boundaries between these categories are not optional; the opportunistic open-endedness of natural selection depends on them.”
― From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
― From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
“Principles of choice, or “personal rules,” represent self-enforcing contracts with your future motivational states; such contracts depend on your seeing each current choice as a precedent that predicts how you’re apt to choose among similar options in the future. Short-range interests evade personal rules by proposing exceptions that might keep the present case from setting a precedent. The will is a recursive process that bets the expected value of your future self-control against each of your successive temptations.”
― Breakdown of Will
― Breakdown of Will
“Representation is a process of informational triangulation. Its aim is the specification of distal stimuli. It achieves that aim by corralling the output of multiple information channels integrated at their point of confluence. The integration process, in short, disambiguates individual information channels via the mutual constraints each channel provides others. The specificity won thereby falls on a continuum from the highly unspecific (simple transducers, little integrative depth) to the highly specific (subtle transducers, manifold integration).”
― Simple Minds
― Simple Minds
“In the cosmic scheme of things, your life barely registers as a blip. It is hardly noticeable in the long arc of history. The information you produce by moving your arm up is not going to tell you much about anything of interest. But when you scope down in a way that reflects the horizon scaled to human thought and action, your life looms large in the image. It doesn’t just loom large; it occupies a central place. The events of your life provide the frame of reference around which the events of History arrange themselves in circles of diminishing knowledge and concern. The difference that your choices make to your own future is large, indeed.”
― How Physics Makes Us Free
― How Physics Makes Us Free
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