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

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The Scale of Freeness

Mike Downey: You should definitely get Chris Fields on your podcast, because his big thing is that scale of freeness. He says the free energy principle is by construction scale free, it cannot be reductionist at the same time. So as soon as you've got a scale-free theory, you can apply either to gamma oscillations in your hippocampus, or it can apply to natural selection read as basic model selection. Then you start to ask big questions, well, how does this very slow self-evidancing process contextualize and be informed by this very fast self-evident processes? It has to be deployed for me mathematically in the spirit of the renormalization

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