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Karl Friston: Is Reality Inferred?

Mind-Body Solution

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The Free Energy Principle and the Special Case

There's a fundamental divide, an informational barrier, or probably beyond information, existential barrier between the inside and the outside of any thinking thing. All you can do is inference to the best prediction as opposed to explanation. But all of this I think is entirely consistent with the views that you expressed. The free energy principle in and of itself starts from a very metaphysical position that there is an outside and there is an inside. There has to be something else out there.

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