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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Cybernetic Model of Expectation

Jeffrey Gray, a great thinker in my memory sort of famed for understanding later inhibition and how you use the surprise or these mismatches or these prediction errors. And it's interesting that you speak to his conceptual roots in cybernetics because there's a very, very close connection between the things that we're talking about and the early formulations of cybernetics by people like Ross Ashby. There's this good regulator theory, which I think your listeners don't know about,. It's just the notion and provable notion that to control an environment, you have to have a model of that environment. To be able to couple with, to engage with the environment, the degrees of freedom of

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