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Re:To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions by uoaei on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:57PM (#29260898)
Some professionals take issue with this framing, but it's usually referred to in jargon-permitted settings as "controlled hallucinations".
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Re:To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions by anon9001 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:47PM (#29261173)
Why do they take issue with it? It seems obviously true?

We've clearly got inputs, outputs, and when working correctly, some signal processing going on in the middle.

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Re:To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions by uoaei on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:06PM (#29269154)
For one, the hubris of obviously-uninformed statements such as this one.

But more like: the inputs, processing, and outputs have much more complicated relationships than this causal chain that you have described. Modern neuroscience and research into NCC have shown that the brain, obviously, is not so simple.

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Re:To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions by HighlandSpring on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:25AM (#29262230)
Maybe they're the sort of professional who also get tax exemptions on religious grounds
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Re:To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions by uoaei on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:07PM (#29269163)
A foolish supposition that draws a pre-supposed (and patently, absurdly false) binary across what people are allowed to believe.
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