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Karl Friston on the Perils of Investigations into Consciousness, Derealization, and the Free Energy Principle
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Dangers of Being a Self
To engage in turn-taking, you need to have this explicit part of your generative model that I am a self. In so doing, you will also have contextualized as part of yourGenerative model, self in a number of different states. You can sometimes lose, entertain the null hypothesis that I am not a self, or I do not exist in a sentient fashion. This is a perfectly viable hypothesis. It can be held in a non-emotional context when you meet people like philosophers,. entertain things like the zombie hypothesis or brain of that thought experiments. These are all really interesting instances of a very high order life form.
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