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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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The Machine Learning Process of the Perception System

Waves is a machine learning model that is constantly tuned to minimize surprises. It basically tries to predict as well as it can what you're going to perceive next. And one of these agents is using your own control model, the output of your model, the things that you perceive yourself as doing. What about the fact that when you're standing with the water on your feet and you're looking out into the vast open water of the ocean and then there's a beautiful sunset? That's all happening inside of the dream world.

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