Most brains simulate just one character (cf Player vs. Character: A Two-Level Model of Ethics), and use the life-long data about it, but brains are capable of simulating more characters—usually this is a mental health issue, but you can also think about some sort of deep sleeper agent who half-forgot his original identity.
I mostly do support the parts which are reinventions / relatively straightforward consequence of active inference. For some reason I don’t fully understand it is easier for many LessWrongers to reinvent their own version (cf simulators, predictive models) than to understand the thing.
On the other hand I don’t think many of the non-overlapping parts are true.
This seems like you’d support Steven Byrnes’ Intuitive Self-Models model.
I mostly do support the parts which are reinventions / relatively straightforward consequence of active inference. For some reason I don’t fully understand it is easier for many LessWrongers to reinvent their own version (cf simulators, predictive models) than to understand the thing.
On the other hand I don’t think many of the non-overlapping parts are true.
Well, the best way to understand something is often to (re)derive it. And the best way to make sure you have actually understood it is to explain it to somebody. Reproducing research is also a good idea. This process also avoids or uncovers errors in the original research. Sure, the risk is that your new explanation is less understandable than the official one, but that seems more like a feature than a bug to me: It might be more understandable to some people. Diversity of explanations.