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The Free Energy Principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead

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The Inactive Approach to Visual Secades

Inactive means that cognition is something that we do. The idea there is to emphasize like the sensory motor loop and to kind of undo the sandwich model. So consider the following like, what is a visual secade? Right? Yeah. Like our eyes aren't static, but they're constantly moving left and very small amounts. And that's necessary for vision. It's the mechanism of vision, really. A lot of what your visual cortex is doing in interaction with the motor cortex is kind of deciding where to look next.

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