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#255 — The Future of Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Prediction Process?

i think it's important to point out that a model need not be a conscious model. In fact, most of our models are not conscious, and might not even be, in principle, available to consciousness. But youno, if i reach for my coffee cup and grasp it, the ordinary experience of doing that is something i am conscious of. I'm not conscious of all the prediction that is built to my accomplishing that or experiencing what i experience when i touch a coffee cup. And so thats sort of the foundation. You can't make a prediction without a model. So maybe you can talk about by having a model at the level of the cortex, and how prediction is built into

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