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Intelligence and the Brain: A Quick Summary
This is the concluding posting of the talk ‘Intelligence and the Brain’ which simply summarizes major points in a small number of bullet points: Intelligence has been presented here with reference to Karl Friston’s ‘Free Energy’ tentative theory of how the brain … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Dennett, entropy, freedom, information theory, intelligence, Karl Friston, prediction, variational free energy
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Free Energy and Free Will
This posting is an additional part of the talk ‘Intelligence and the Brain’. Here, I tie together ideas from the talk about prediction with those concerning free will from the previous talk ‘Free Will/Free Wont’. In a dualist worldview, the … Continue reading
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Tagged chaos, Daniel Wegner, Free Energy, free energy theory, free will, freedom, Karl Friston, physicalism, prediction, variational free energy
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Talk: Intelligence and the Brain
What is ‘intelligence’? What is the brain actually doing? How is intelligence physically realised in the brain? Quite how the brain manages to achieve what it does remains elusive. It’s true that almost every day there are news stories that … Continue reading
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Tagged agents, Andy Clark, Bayesian brain, Blue Brain Project, chaos, Claude Shannon, connectome, cortical columns, Daniel Dennett, Donald Campbell, entropy, evolutionary epistemology, Extended Intelligence, Extended Mind, free will, Howard Gardner, Human Brain Project, Intelligence Amplification, Isaiah Berlin, James Surowiecki, Karl Friston, Karl Popper, Konrad Lorenz, Lamarck, maximum entropy principle, Maxwell's demon, negentropy, Paul MacLean, Philip Tetlock, physicalism, posentropy, prediction, Rodney Brooks, Sodium Potassium pump, subsumption, Tamar Gendler, Triune brain, variational free energy, W. Ross Ashby, wisdom of crowds
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