Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
New Books in Neuroscience
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How Much Should You Update Your Prior Expectation Given This New Evidence?
Le so abaze was a nonconformist minister in the eighteenth century. He became a fellow of the royal society, despite not having any published papers. His theorem is basicly how much should you update your prior expectation given this new evidence? And that's the basis of all these predictive coding and so on. It becomes quite complicated, but it's a very good framework for explaining a lot about perception,. about action, and about how the brain works in general.
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