Jeff Beck: belief

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…did actually notice that the active inference community has quite a ragtag. It's got very diverse. So in a way, you see people rubbing up against each other that you normally wouldn't. And that can create arguments, I suppose. Yeah. Well, think this was Carl's influence. So what did Carl actually discover, right? He's got this link between information theory and and and you know, and statistical physics that in some way gives you this sort of uniform mathematical framework that's widely applicable to a huge number of situations. It has a lot of sort of things that are baked into how we think about the world is kinda like baked into it, and so it can be applied in a whole bunch of different areas. And Carl spent a lot of time basically evangelizing various different aspects of the scientific community. It's like, oh, look, you can apply this to epidemiology. You can apply this to the social sciences. You can apply this to physics. You can apply, you know, and just sort of, and and, know, wrote a series. This is 1 of the reasons I think he's so prolific is because he's basically, you know, written variations on the same paper, right, but just applied in different domains. And he did this, and this was intentional, right, because he wanted to show that this is a is a nigh uniformly applicable mathematical framework. And I think he's largely right about that. As a result, right, there's all these people from all these different communities have been pulled into his sphere that think about the world very differently and it makes for some very entertaining conversations at the pub. Yes. Even in our Discord server you know we've got people thinking about it in terms of crypto, even in terms of Christianity, phenomenology, psychology. It's really interesting. Yeah it's…

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