Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

I’m going to withdraw from the afternoon from commenting, because I have a lot of work to do this afternoon. I’ll be updating the comments regularly, though. Here’s a thought experiment for the room.

Granted, I may not have always been aware of the term - or just how much it's used as a rhetorical device - but the essence of the problem has always been there for me, subconsciously at least. One of ...