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#322 — Predicting Reality

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Predictive Brain Hypothesis

I think since you published your book, AI has just exploded into relevance for almost everyone. So I want to get your take on the implications of these increasingly powerful tools. But before we do, let's talk about the brain and the mind - this notion that much of what the brain is doing perceptually as a matter of motor control and emotional regulation and just cognition generally is a matter of predicting reality. Let's just take it from the ground up. However you want to start, what is this predictive brain hypothesis?

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