When Should You Trust a Surprise?
A prediction error tells your brain how wrong you were, but not why. How does the nervous system decide whether an unexpected event is random noise to ignore or news that should change your worldview?
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3 published articles
If the Brain Predicts the World, Why Are We Curious?
If predictive brains try to minimize prediction errors, why don’t we retreat into dark rooms? How active inference, information gain, and intermediate complexity drive exploration and curiosity.
How to Test a Brain Explanation That Sounds Like It Explains Everything
Predictive processing offers a grand view of the brain, but how do we tell genuine discoveries from post-hoc storytelling? A 4-question toolkit for evaluating neuroscience claims.
