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Karl Friston on the Perils of Investigations into Consciousness, Derealization, and the Free Energy Principle

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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How to Overcome Dispassionate Assessment of Evidence

The scientific process seems to work because the operational definition of working simply is maximizing the marginal likelihood. So notice that in this instance, you're not going to make any false inferences. You won't need to change your mind. If you've got the wrong model, the data will provide discomfort, matri evidence and you may well try and get data from another source. And if you can do that and continue engaging until your model is fit for purpose, what you have basically done is find a niche for yourself where your ideology, your conceptions are perfectly fine.

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