
The virus and the vegan: How the brain gains inference (Ep 70)
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The Evolution of Humans and the Evolution of Evolutionary Biologists
The renormalisability of natural selection means that it can be written down as a minimization process at different scales. But crucially, each scale contextlizes the scale there before. So i would imagine yorvew, if you took a sort of coarse graind approach to humans and just sor hove sampled the dna, then you would find that the dna was evolving in a way to maximi's moderl evidence or minimize free energy. And sono as metti, what would be the most efficient way o tke it? Of course, that's that's the free energy principle.
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