Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation

Whenever you blank out and forget where you are, you are reproducing the experience of those identical yous in a multiverse, unsure who is who.

We form new concepts without limit by stringing together what we already know or nesting one concept within another. In fact, some suggest that consciousness evolved precisely to allow for open-ended learning.

Our minds evolved to understand the world, which requires that the world be understandable. And we are of this world.

According to Friston's way of thinking, which he calls active inference, the brain is not the body's helmsman or puppeteer, but its dreamer. Brain and body are bound up in a mutual project to predict the world successfully. Sometimes the brain does the work, sometimes the body.