Re:Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to ...
by conjectures on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @11:07AM
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Thanks - I found this very useful.
> From the Alius interview:
"The free energy principle stands in stark distinction to things like predictive coding and the Bayesian brain hypothesis. This is because the free energy principle is what it is — a principle. Like Hamilton’s Principle of Stationary Action, it cannot be falsified. It cannot be disproven. In fact, there’s not much you can do with it, unless you ask whether measurable systems conform to the principle."
> From the Alius interview:
"The free energy principle stands in stark distinction to things like predictive coding and the Bayesian brain hypothesis. This is because the free energy principle is what it is — a principle. Like Hamilton’s Principle of Stationary Action, it cannot be falsified. It cannot be disproven. In fact, there’s not much you can do with it, unless you ask whether measurable systems conform to the principle."
This is a big kahuna burger of a bullet to bite!