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Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
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Jul 03, 2020
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sutterbomb on
GPT-3 Creative Fiction
The current leading theories on how the brain works are that yes, they are essentially very impressive prediction machines, which obviously rely on all sorts of pattern matching to make said predictions. You can look up Karl Friston's free energy principle or check this book for more detailshttps://www.amazon.com/Surfing-Uncertainty-Prediction-Action...
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Oct 22, 2018
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wnoise on
Are our brains Bayesian? (2016)
See also the book _Surfing Uncertainty_ (https://www.amazon.com/Surfing-Uncertainty-Prediction-Action...) which convincingly details many brain subsystems as approximating Bayesian updates.
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Reminds me of this Slate Star Codex post[0] on the book "Surfing Uncertainty"[1].Also it looks like the relevant paper is here[3] and a video example is here[4].
[0]: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190217014/