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298. Perception: Chaos and Order | Dr. Karl Friston

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Predictive Coding for Depression

The key aspect of this sort of message passing scheme is that it really matters how much weight you afford to the prediction errors that are passed and ascend the hierarchy. So if I read your const, well, let's take depression. And I also like to talk about psychedelics because they act upon exactly the same neurotransmitter systems. Depression is pernicious because a lot of the symptoms of depression prevent you going and getting evidence that you're not this kind of person or that you could have coped with this particular scenario. But in accumulating evidence, I have to choose to expose myself to the world. I have to actively sense and go out there. That would indeed render me in a state

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