This blog is a timeline of the Philosophy and Social Criticism of Brian Cameron Taylor, going back to 2009. Topics include: the Self, Authenticity, Anti-Social Engineering the Hyper-Manipulated Self, the constituents of Paradigm, Assignee's Prerogative, Conservatism being Unnatural, Existential Intentionality, Consciousness Studies, Digital Personage, Informational Platonism, Geometricity and Social Physics, Politics, Arts and Culture, himself, you.
They put some brain cells on a computer chip and taught it to play Doom, a video game, by affecting brain cells either positively (predictions are correct or work) or negatively (predictions are wrong and fail.)
The affecting is the part that matters.
If everything is information, then surprise is a universal active inference.
