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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Conflict Between Prediction and Prediction?

Predictive processing bandies around terms like prediction, expectation, prediction, error, surprise and all these things. But i think it's very important to recognize that these terms don't only mean psychological surprise or explicit beliefs and expectations that i might hold. So certainly, if i go down morning, i am not expecting to see a tiger. However, my visual system, when it encounters a particular kind of input, is still expecting. And ultimately the best guess is that there's some kind of animal there, and indeed that it's a tiger. We can see new things because new things are built up from simpler elements for which we will have ar adequate predictions for.

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