The Free Energy Principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead
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The Dark Room Problem
An organism embodies a statistical model of its environment, meaning that like there's a kind of average value that it expects to encounter for different classes of stimuli. And the organism will only be prompted to process like a stimulus when there's a deviation from what I'd expected. So an action basically has a pragmatic component, the pragmatic affordance or a value of a policy and the epistemic component and the value of our policy. It turns out that for some using these nice mathematical tricks, you can decompose that into basically how close do I get to my preferred observations? The first reason is we're embodied, right? To bring it back to the embodied mind,. But my body is a statistical
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