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AMA | February 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Free Energy Principle and the Bayesian Brain

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.

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