A thinking being lives in a material world that they can perceive and influence. According to Karl Friston, in order to successfully achieve their goals through action or inaction, a thinking being needs to have an adequate model of the external world in their mind, with themselves at the center of it as the acting agent. In that case, the primary goal of any thinking being is to validate its internal model of the world through active interaction with it, which often leads to surprise — the main stimulus for model re-evaluation. This is what fundamentally distinguishes our intelligence from that of LLMs, which merely match input to output and lack any continuously updated internal representation of the surrounding world. From Friston’s perspective, morality is an adaptive system of norms that minimizes uncertainty in social interactions and helps maintain stable, predictable relations with the surrounding world. You don’t need to model the whole brain to understand this.
A thinking being lives in a material world that they can perceive and influence. According to Karl Friston, in order to successfully achieve their goals through action or inaction, a thinking being needs to have an adequate model of the external world in their mind, with themselves at the center of it as the acting agent. In that case, the primary goal of any thinking being is to validate its internal model of the world through active interaction with it, which often leads to surprise — the main stimulus for model re-evaluation.
This is what fundamentally distinguishes our intelligence from that of LLMs, which merely match input to output and lack any continuously updated internal representation of the surrounding world.
From Friston’s perspective, morality is an adaptive system of norms that minimizes uncertainty in social interactions and helps maintain stable, predictable relations with the surrounding world.
You don’t need to model the whole brain to understand this.