#322 — Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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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