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

Thing in itself

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How to Maximize the Marginal Probability of All of Your Sensations

We have to generate predictions of a universe in which there are other creatures who are doing the same thing so as soon as you have a sense of self and other i have to have one to understand what you're doing. Depth of sophistication is needed to disambiguate who's talking and to be able to talk in the first place. We wouldn't have these hierarchically deeply and delicately crafted german models crafted by this evolutionary level of coevolution if it wasn't for our conspecifics, he says.

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