#322 — Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Precision and Attention in Perception. Consciousness just as prediction machine (bayes?)
Our brain doesn't experience prediction errors, but rather, it uses them to recruit a better prediction/nPrecision plays a huge role in implementing attention, adjusting the amount of processing driven by sensory input versus predictions/nAttention can increase the weight of either sensory input or prediction based on which one is estimated to be more reliable/nPrecision is being estimated for every neural population in every area all the time
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