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John Vervaeke ~ Active Inference Insights 003 ~ Relevance Realisation, Predictive Processing, Flow

Active Inference Insights

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Longitudinal Agency in Self

The world discloses itself in ways unique to each individual, leading to the emergence of consciousness as an optimization of episodic memory for future transfer. This results in a sense of agency, characterized as longitudinal agency around episodes, rather than a billiard ball-like agency. The concept of being an uncaused cause or a moved mover within oneself is deemed both ontologically ridiculous and ethically undesirable.

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