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The Free Energy Principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead

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The Role of Models in Mechanistic Explanation

The free energy is essentially a metric or a measure of that, the amount of evidence that the data makes available for each of the different models. The model here isn't the model of, I mean, at some stage, it might be, but like the model is ultimately a model of the agent acting in the world. So, our actions are the main driver of our sensory phenomenology.

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