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#322 - Predicting Reality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Perception Action Loops in Prediction Machines

We're never presented with absolute genuine novelty. Even if an object came from Mars or somewhere like that and it landed beside the Coke can, there's enough common patterns there in the sort of low level sensory information for me to construct some kind of grip on its rough shape and its color. If you put me in a brand new kind of environment, the closest I can think of to this is when I first went diving. And yet over time, you you're able to see an awful lot better. We have to train what in that case is a very, very bad prediction machine, in particular with perception action loops.

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