Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
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The Importance of Constraints in the Brain
When something's about something, there are constraints that give you information. Having information means a reduction in uncertainty. In one sense, the informational nature of that loop of causality from something in the world that doesn't yet exist, that I can represent by a pattern of activity also the result of constraints. To constrain my activity, to constrain the way the world changes. This is a series of constraints, a series of absences,. A series of things being prevented.
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