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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Perception of Visual Experiences

We like to think that we perceive the world and then we behave. We can also think of behavior controlling perception so that when we catch a cricket ball, what we're really doing is maintaining a perceptual variable to be a constant. That's how you do Bayesian inference in the brain. And if you've got a generative model that can invert that mapping, then that's capable of predicting what sensory signals would happen conditional on different kinds of actions. This brings in an extension of predictive processing where we start to think about reducing prediction errors not only by updating our predictions but making them come true.

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