(Medical Xpress, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Part A: Exposition 2.1 From Passive Reception to Active Inference 2.2 Mathematical Foundations: Bayesian Inference and the Brain 2.3Core Principles of Predictive Processing: The Brain as a Prediction Machine 2.4 Empirical Evidence for Bayesian and Predictive Processing 2.5 Applications to Cognitive Phenomena 2.6 Applications to Psychopathology … [continue reading]
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The Bayesian Brain and Predictive Processing: A Critique, #2.
(Medical Xpress, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Part A: Exposition 2.1 From Passive Reception to Active Inference 2.2 Mathematical Foundations: Bayesian Inference and the Brain 2.3Core Principles of Predictive Processing: The Brain as a Prediction Machine 2.4 Empirical Evidence for Bayesian and Predictive Processing 2.5 Applications to Cognitive Phenomena 2.6 Applications to Psychopathology … [continue reading]
The Bayesian Brain and Predictive Processing: A Critique, #1.
(Medical Xpress, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Part A: Exposition 2.1 From Passive Reception to Active Inference 2.2 Mathematical Foundations: Bayesian Inference and the Brain 2.3 Core Principles of Predictive Processing: The Brain as a Prediction Machine 2.4 Empirical Evidence for Bayesian and Predictive Processing 2.5 Applications to Cognitive Phenomena 2.6 Applications to … [continue reading]
Against the Physicists #3: The Reality of Temporal Passage and the Falsity of Block Universe Eternalism.
(Al-Kahlili, 2002) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Against the Physicists #3: The Reality of Temporal Passage and the Falsity of Block Universe Eternalism 1. Introduction Contemporary eternalism, grounded … [continue reading]
Russell’s Paradox and the Ontological Filter: Toward a Consistency-Based Collection Theory.
(Wikimedia Commons, 2021) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Russell’s Paradox and the Ontological Filter: Toward a Consistency-Based Collection Theory 1. Introduction In this essay, we propose “Collection Theory,” … [continue reading]
The Integration Illusion: Why Calculus’s Greatest Trick is a House of Cards.
(Saha, 2018) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download icon. The Integration Illusion: Why Calculus’s Greatest Trick is a House of Cards 1. Introduction Calculus textbooks sell integration as the noble … [continue reading]
Radical Logical Skepticism: The Unprovability Paradox as Total Underminer of Professional Academic Analytic Philosophy.
(IEP, 2026) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Radical Logical Skepticism: The Unprovability Paradox as Total Underminer of Professional Academic Analytic Philosophy 1. Introduction Professional academic Analytic philosophy is … [continue reading]
Against the Physicists, #2: On the Energy–Time Uncertainty and the Impossibility of Sharp Realism.
(Dietterich Labs, 2019) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Against the Physicists, #2: On the Energy–Time Uncertainty and the Impossibility of Sharp Realism 1. The Dogma Stated The physicists … [continue reading]
Against the Physicists, #1: On the Non-Conservation of Energy in the Curved Einsteinian Dogma.
(Carreau, 2015) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Against the Physicists, #1: On the Non-Conservation of Energy in the Curved Einsteinian Dogma 1. Introduction In physics, it is commonly … [continue reading]
Feynman’s Light Path Integral Mirage: Why “All Possible Paths” for Photons is a Mathematical Illusion That Professional Academic Philosophy Lets Stand.
(Physics Explained, 2025) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Feynman’s Light Path Integral Mirage: Why “All Possible Paths” for Photons is a Mathematical Illusion That Academic Professional Philosophy Lets … [continue reading]