The most beautiful idea I've read this month: "Intelligence is the architecture we build to keep the dark out."
New piece unifies Saliency and FEP, arguing that attention isn't a feature of intelligence—it's the tuning mechanism for surprise minimization.🧵⬇️

The Surprise Minimizers: How Your Brain Builds Reality. The Predictive System That Constructs Your Experience of the World. 🧵⏬

The effects of "Fear of Forgetting" in Personal Knowledge Management.

Your personal knowledge management system may be weighing you down. The "Fear of Forgetting" (FoF) drives us to hoard notes, turning our systems into identity trophies rather than thinking tools . #PKM #KnowledgeManagement #IntentionalForgetting

When we write by hand, something profound happens that typing cannot replicate. The neuroscience is compelling: handwriting engages theta oscillations over parietal and central brain regions—patterns associated with deep memory encoding.

Reimagining intelligence: Intelligence is a fundamentally collective and multi-scale phenomenon, moving beyond a solely human-centric perspective.

Dimensional Reduction : The Manifold and Sub-Manifold hypotheses
Dimensional reduction seeks to minimize the latent dimension while maintaining computational efficiency and contextual meaning.
extendedbrain.substack.com/p/dimensiona...

Exciting ideas: Constraint Closure, Bioenactivism

In the age of "experts" the question how to get the right mix from their advice is very important.
The Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (MWUA) addresses this problem in a general setting
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Good explanation of the meaning crisis by
@DrJohnVervaeke

Susan Wolfe's 4 dimensions of meaningful life: Purpose, Coherence, Significance, Mattering
Religio (Latin) is the essence of connectedness
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