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298. Perception: Chaos and Order | Dr. Karl Friston

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Best Narrative Is Dependent on Exploration

Dr. Fristen: One of the most functional narratives, as far as I can tell, is predicated on the idea that you should conduct yourself in a manner that leaves you open to exposing yourself to information that will allow you to update your narratives. So it's a weird loop. It's like, well, narrative itself is dependent on exploration. And so the best narrative in the most fundamental sense is one that leaves the option of exploration continually open. That's something like a voluntary confrontation with the anomalies that characterize existence as the central pattern of adaptive being. Okay. Well, I'm afraid we have to bring this part of this conversation to a close, even though I don't

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