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#247 — Constructing Minds

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Brain as a Predictive Computing System

i think you just did a beautiful job describing it in very poetic terms. Actually calling it a dream, like calling the brains, or describing the brain's function as conjuring dream like state is actually something that i just came across in this really wonderful book by carlo rivelli. And so thatnow, perhaps that can get you going in the direction of how you about the mind as a predictive computational system and not one that's merely passively encountering the world as it is.

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