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298. Perception: Chaos and Order | Dr. Karl Friston

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Resolving Uncertainty

In one sense, the simplest way to resolve my surprise and make the world as predictable as possible would initially be to resolve my uncertainty about you by asking you the right kinds of questions. And also, ultimately, I'm going to try and make you like me or me like you because the closer we are, if we can share the same narratives and the same language, then together we're mutually predictable. So that mathematically would be a generalized synchrony from a social neuroscience perspective on Dalek interactions. It's basically aligning ourselves so that we come to know each other and that we can dance and synchronize and exchange. After a while, I don't need to ask you any more

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