Scott Alexander has a cool theory that unifies Bayesian inference, low-level behaviour like neurotransmitter levels and high-level behaviour like learning, maki

Scott Alexander has a cool theory that unifies Bayesian inference, low-level behaviour like neurotransmitter levels and high-level behaviour like learning, making decisions and different sensory phenomena (some of the posts explain autism and schizophrenia): * https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un... * https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-up/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-... * https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/towards-a-bayesian-theory-of-willpower https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/towards-a-bayesian-the... * https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-basic-problem https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-ba... The core concept is called predictive coding, which suggests that the brain is constantly generating and updating a model of the world in a top-down and bottom-up manner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding Disclaimer: epistemic status = very speculative.