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290 - John Vervaeke - How to See the End of the World

The Symbolic World

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The Role of Relevance Realization in Predictive Processing

The brain prefers predictable unhappiness over surprising happiness, he says. In fact, you can sort of measure the intelligence of a being by the scope of its abilities to anticipate. And what your brain is, it's a massive predicting machine,. Many levels of abstraction predicting the next second, predict like it's doing all of this in this really complex recursive fashion.

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