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#67 Prof. KARL FRISTON 2.0

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Having a Qualitive Experience Is a Counter Factual

Before you get to consciousness, you've got to have temporal depth. There can be more than one outcome to any act. So there will be a grandmother' cell in your pre frontal cortex that fires when it says, oh, i'm having the qualitive experience of seeing red. But this is an example of a counter factural hypothesis. It's a real gift to be able to have these counter fatuals andy clark would argue that just qualityof experience is also another counter fatual. And then i repeat, selecting amongst a number of different er counterfac or comes, evaluating them and choosing one. You get into issues a free will at this stage. The first fol

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