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Karl Friston on the FEP, cognition, life, agency, enactivism

Thing in itself

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The Pragmatic Affordance

There's a beautiful formal relationship between these two aspects of good plans that inherits from the way of decomposing your surprise or your free energy bound into an energy in an entropy sometimes you rearrange that into a sort of accuracy complexity. We call that pragmatic affordance to complement the ecostemic affordance so sitting in a chair I think would be more the pragmatic affordance things like me like to sit in chairs. Having another group of people that is not like-minded affords epistemic affordance for particular tweets or questions, he says.

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