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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Conflict Between Expectations and the Bayesian Brain

This leaves open the question, what is happening when we experience something fundamentally new, or have an experience where our expectations are violated? So we're using terms like predictions or expectations or models of the world. But I think there's a scope for some confusion here, because I just imagine, for instance, that some malicious zookeeper put a fully grown tiger in your kitchen while you were sleeping tonight. And it's safe to assume you'll see it even before you've had your cup of coffee.

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