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Re:Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to ... by atschantz on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:15PM (#18495491)
The 'revolutionary' aspect is the suggestion that a single celled organism is also doing variational inference. Or, more accurately, can be described as such.
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Re:Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to ... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:41PM (#18496418)
The trouble is hitting the right "happy medium" between (variational) inference as an explanation of the sensory and motor cortices, and variational inference as a universal theory of everything.
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Re:Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to ... by josepi_ on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:18PM (#18499138)
Man, I can barely understand any of this. Is there a more ELI5 type explanation anywhere?
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