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The New Laws of Robotics - Dr. Karl Friston, Cognitive Neuroscientist

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Using Maths to Define a Belief

Math is amazing because it allows us to describe motion really well. But motion isn't so useful in the world of concepts and ideas on their own right. So how would you use math to describe an emotion or some kind of effective state in a way that was useful? In my world it's fairly straightforward. I'm using words now that will be very familiar to a statistician who describes mathematically statistically or information theory. The process of assimilating evidence from the sense to world in the service of moving your beliefsTechnically and basing in terms of moving from a prior belief before you saw some evidence to a posterior belief after you've seen the evidence.

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