I've heard of 3 hypothesized "basic drives" for living things: seek pleasure, avoid pain, minimize energy. I don't know that any of them is based on anything more solid than Freud-level hand-waving, but I think there's a fourth one: regulate uncertainty.
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wasn't this what karl friston's free energy principle is about?
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(clarification: i do not claim to understand friston's free energy principle beyond having read an SSC post about it some time, nor do i plan on spending the time and energy to reduce my remaining uncertainty about it)
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Karl Friston's Free Energy principle is a variant of it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle …) There are other formulations that are easier to understand, I'll reply with some refs later
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I don't fully understand the free energy principle, but that was also the first thing I thought of.
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@hohwy@anilkseth@danwilliamsphil , Andy Clark. There’s a couple of@slatestarcodex that grapple with it. Friston’s seems to be one layer of abstraction higher, and thereby one level less helpful to start withThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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