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The Beautiful Mind
- Our mind is programmed to sample the world so that the immediate future can be predictable, as a way to survive it with minimum surprises and disruptions, and as a way to conserve energy.
- Free energy, outside the mind, maybe incomprehensible and even impossible to grasp fully, but our mind filters and curates much of the information and presents it to us in palpable format.
- Our mind, when seen neurologically, is infinitely vast, much like the universe, which it even resembles visually.
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- Friston also invented statistical parameter mapping, a brain-scannin...
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When you explain and describe an idea in your own words, you consciously associate what you want to learn with what you've already learned.
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