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Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

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The Deep Continuity Hypothesis and the Deep Constraint Hypothesis

Evan Thompson talks about this idea of the deep continuity hypothesis. He says there's a continuity between those biological the principles that make you alive and the set of constraints and principles that makes you a cognitive agent. This is directly relevant also to my work on relevance realization because your brain is doing this opponent processing between trying to be as efficient as it can and how resilient resilient meaning keeping as many options open as it can. The way you make sense of things at this primordial level where things are obvious and salient to you is very much dependent on you being in embodied being an embodied mind.

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