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#88 Andy Clark: How Brains Model The World

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What Is Surprisal?

We have our top down models of the world, these kind of like basy and, oh, i predict this, i predict that. What's going to happen to day? It's probably the same as it was yesterday. And then when we get this bottom up sensory data, it's kind of put into those models. Those models are actively, like, predicting all the time. This isa in your book, which calls surprisal, or theprediction ar or its nd.

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