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Karl Friston: Is The Brain A Statistical Organ? The Free Energy Principle & Active Inference

Mind-Body Solution

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Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness

Theories of illusionism as a theory of consciousness have value using your theory of the energy principle and the Bayesian brain to back it up. Your control hallucination is just an expression of the way that sensory impressions somehow control our sense-making on the inside. These sensory impressions, by definition, will never actually know what's going on on the outside. And in a sort of complementary fashion, I will never know what you are thinking. So I'm on the outside looking at you. This is just a hypothesis. It's just a belief. There is a fundamental divide in the physics application of the free energy principle less upon something called a Markov blanket.

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