Anil Seth just described the free energy principle as "largely impenetrable" 🤣.
@DrYohanJohn Ha! It is pretty opaque. Friston and co have tried to boil it down into an intuitive and easily digestible form, but the details are pretty convoluted. This makes me want to give it a try.
I've spent some time on it, going through the math in great detail, and I've come to the conclusion that it's a waste of my time. The notation is a shambles, the physics connections questionable, and the conclusions vague/untestable. What is true in it strikes me as trivially so.
I'll wait for a textbook entry five years from now. 😅
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@DrYohanJohn FWIW, I feel about integrated information theory (IIT) much the way you do about the free energy principle.
@johnnylogic Oh that's even worse since phi can't be calculated due to the combinatoric explosion. 😅