ActInf Livestream #053.1 ~ 'Snakes and Ladders in Paleoanthropology' & 'To copy or not to copy…'

First participatory group discussion on:

Snakes and Ladders in Paleoanthropology: From Cognitive Surprise to Skillfulness a Million Years Ago
Michael John Walker, Héctor Marín Manrique, Karl Friston

"To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture"
Héctor Marín Manrique, Michael John Walker

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[marcfruchtman]

Thanks again. I appreciate the topic presenters and the stream. I am unsure of the main reason to try to connect Active Inference to evolutionary events / how certain things happen in the Archeological record. I feel like Active Inference tries to explain "everything" in theory, but in Reality, in order for this to work, doesn't there need to be a specification of a prior probability distribution over the variables in the model. Given the Markov Blanket for Evolution, I see no way to ground this.