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The Free Energy Principle, Consciousness & Psychedelics with Dr. Adam Safron

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The Power of Narrative Gravity

I think that when these, the mechanism design over the games, this structure according to narrative, then, and we're back to dinner again with the self as a son or narrative of gravity. There's a sense which like our goals and values and meanings and these narratives serve that function. If at the right part of the system you have representations of these goals and that they're in their position in the right way that they can and train,. Then I say you have an autonomous self to the degree that's the case in the spider agrees. It's probably the most expensive thing your brain does. And it's paying its weight because it lets you surf uncertainty. That's how it pays its

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