Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

I’m going to withdraw from the afternoon from commenting, because I have a lot of work to do this afternoon. I’ll be updating the comments regularly, though. Here’s a thought experiment for the room.

Granted, I may not have always been aware of the term - or just how much it's used as a rhetorical device - but the essence of the problem has always been there for me, subconsciously at least. One of ...

It is impossible to discuss the narrative fallacy without talking about the work of Nassim Taleb and modern economic theory. While he ascribes macro-level impact to the need to create post-hoc ...