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#322 — Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Evolution of Predictive Processing
There are lots of different things going on there, I think. There are some kinds of stimulus that get assigned very high precision when you're detected at all. So fast moving things from the peripheries tend to be assigned high precision as soon as they turn out. That's an evolutionarily useful thing. You notice something if it's kind of moving fast towards you. And attention seems to do is it reverses that dampening effect so that you can keep something alive by attending hard to it and that's some work that COC, KOK and some others have done.
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