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#320 - Constructing Self and World

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Free Energy Principle and Predictive Inference in the Brain

I think it's worth trying to explain what you mean by the free energy principle. Part of that picture is also the work you've done on Bayesian inference in the brain. We might just to make things difficult, we might also mention integrated information theory. Come at that tangle however you want. But what do you think is the best hypothesis at the moment describing what the brain is doing? Yeah. So why don't we look at the brain from first principles and then maybe we can later apply to meditation and spirituality. Okay. Now that's that's great. Well, so we have many things on the menu here. Let's start with the brain. And I guess we should

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