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EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness

The Jim Rutt Show

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The Bayesian Brain and Prediction Error Minimization

The Bayesian brain is the idea that the brain is fundamentally in the business of making an optimal best guess about the causes of sensory signals. People have criticized it because you say it can't be disproved because you can always describe it. That's not the point. It's a useful way of understanding actually what's happening inside brains, which gives birth to this theory of prediction error minimization.

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