130. Bayesian Epistemology & Predictive Processing | THUNK

Bayesian statistics - what are they? Do I want them? What do they have to do with epistemology, rationality, & prediction? Is it possible they’re happening inside me RIGHT NOW?

Links for the Curious

Arbital’s Guide to Bayes’s Rule - https://arbital.com/p/bayes_rule_guide/


Bayes’s Theorem Illustrated (My Way) (komponisto, 2010) - http://lesswrong.com/lw/2b0/bayes_the...

How Bayesian Inference Works (Rohrer, 2016) -    • How Bayes Theorem works  

Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty (Alexander, 2017) - http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/...

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Bayesian Epistemology (Talbott, 2008) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ep...

Bayesian Epistemology Course Notes & Readings (Stefánsson, 2016) - http://orristefansson.is/bayesian-epi...

Bayesian Statistics: Why and How (Dablander, 2015) - http://blog.efpsa.org/2015/08/03/baye...

The New York Times’s review of “The Theory That Would Not Die,” a book about the history of Bayes’s Theorem (Paulos, 2011) - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/boo...

Perceiving as Predicting (Clark & his amazing shirt, 2013, for the 9th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication) -    • Andy Clark - Perceiving as Predicting...  

Wikipedia on "Receptive Field," a primitive neural structure that shows exactly the sort of shape/border recognition posited in "Layer 2" (thanks to Elena for this one!) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recepti...

Predictive Processing And Perceptual Control (Alexander, 2017) - http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/06/...

Predictive processing simplified: The infotropic machine (Thornton, 2017) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science (Clark et al, 2017) - http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Wh...