The Free Energy Principle and the Bayesian Brain

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We're limited in our capacity to do reasoning and information processing, right? So it's not constrained, but there's some phrase that I'm forgetting. In practice, even if we think that the right thing to do is perfectly well expressed by optimizing some number, in practice, we never really do that. The philosophy of how we should act, how we should be moral, what decisions we should make should do a better job.

Welcome to the February 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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