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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the Brain Just a Predictor Model?
The brain is still at the core that's a beautiful vision of the brain i wonder from almost an ai perspective but just computationally is the brain just mostly a prediction machine then like is the perception just the nice little feature added on top. How can we look to evolution for that for one answer? The world was populated by creatures really ruled by creatures without brains and it became very useful to have senses right so being able to look up ahead and you know ask yourself should i eat that or will it eat me is is a very useful thing. We don't really know why things evolve but not necessarily why we don'treally know the why that's all speculation but the why is
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