@seanmcarroll : If our brains, according to the free energy principle, work to minimize the difference between sense data and our internal model of the world, surely someone would have written a paper called "Surprisal and Survival." Google tells me this phrase has never been used. Suspicious. • TwiCopy

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Physics, philosophy, complexity. @JohnsHopkins & @SFIscience. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @JenLucPiquant. Increasingly at Bluesky rather than here.

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If our brains, according to the free energy principle, work to minimize the difference between sense data and our internal model of the world, surely someone would have written a paper called "Surprisal and Survival." Google tells me this phrase has never been used. Suspicious.

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