It’s not obvious to me that “magically transmuting observations into behavior” is actually all that disanalogous to how the brain works. On something like the Surfing Uncertainty theory of the brain, updating probability distributions and minimizing predictive error is all the brain is ever doing, including potentially for things like moving your hand.
It’s not obvious to me that “magically transmuting observations into behavior” is actually all that disanalogous to how the brain works. On something like the Surfing Uncertainty theory of the brain, updating probability distributions and minimizing predictive error is all the brain is ever doing, including potentially for things like moving your hand.
Well then so much the worse for “the Surfing Uncertainty theory of the brain”! :)
See my post Why I’m not into the Free Energy Principle, especially §8: It’s possible to want something without expecting it, and it’s possible to expect something without wanting it.