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Karl Friston

McLuhan's tetrad is computationally equivalent to addiction-as-active-inference1.

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McLuhan's tetrad is computationally equivalent to addiction-as-active-inference

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“the McLuhan tetrad, the Koob allostatic cycle, and the predictive-processing account of addiction are three independent descriptions of the same four-stroke engine”
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"low-definition sensory input requires the brain to generate more top-down prediction"
Asserted by Karl Friston · stance: pro
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