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The question is: by what method can you reach the conclusion that a distribution of inequality we see in our society is the “result” of “genes” “rather than” “environment”? And the answer is, you can’t, because it’s the wrong question.
We Don’t Know Our Potential ❧ Current Affairs
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Nicola Green told me. “It’s wrong to be prescriptive: we have to trust people’s judgment.”
Simply put, the brain needs to model a ‘self’ in order to predict future states that the ‘self’ might inhabit. Along this line of thought, [Friston (2018)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X#bib0300) suggested that self-awareness arises whenever an organism generates predictions about the consequences of its actions, and thus aims to minimize the *expected* surprise resulting from those actions.
From Many to (N)one: Meditation and the Plasticity of the Predictive Mind
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