Edwards, Darren J. :: Functional Contextual Implementation of an Evolutionary, Entropy-Based, and Embodied Free Energy Framework: Utilizing Lagrangian Mechanics and Evolutionary Game Theory’s Truth vs. Fitness Test of the Veridicality of Phenomenological Experience

authors

Edwards, Darren J.

url

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150743

Transdisciplinary paper arguing that evolution does not select brains towards veridicality, but rather towards evolutionary fitness. The abstract claims to tie it in with predictive processing ideas.

Questions before I read:

• is truth fit?

• how are you characterising fitness? in what environments?

• do you narrow your idea of fitness enough to be computationally useful? (I'd be surprised. this is too broad a paper.)

• Related concepts for which I'd like to clarify the relationship further:

  • predictive processing

  • satisficing

  • adversarial neural networks

  • coevolution

  • exaptation (in particular, because of the way the introduction discusses the tapetum lucidum; and also because I think exaptation is cool and useful)