Our Bayesian Brain Hallucinates our Reality - Deepstash
Our Bayesian Brain Hallucinates our Reality

Our Bayesian Brain Hallucinates our Reality

What I believe I am experiencing right now is actually what I am experiencing (called a Posterior Belief). So our reality is weighted average of prior beliefs and sensory data.

These prior beliefs are acting like the hierarchical levels separating a neural network. These included, starting from the levels closer to the sensory data:

  • sensations
  • gesture, voices, happiness, disgust
  • drawings, motions
  • memory, math, faces
  • reasoning, concepts

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Life-long learner. Passionate about leadership, entrepreneurship, philosophy, Buddhism & SF. Founder @deepstash.

Shamil is a former DeepMind employee. Based on his AI experience he proposes that our minds are operating similarly to an AI model.

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