Prices, Dreams, and the Bayesian Brain
Markets and dreams do the same job. They are error-correction loops in a predictive system that cannot see the whole, and they fail in the same way when suppressed.
Suhas Kashyap
A bricolage of musings on science, philosophy, dharma, economics and beauty.
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Essays on emergence, systems thinking, and the patterns that connect metabolism to code.
6 essays · about 48 min of reading
Markets and dreams do the same job. They are error-correction loops in a predictive system that cannot see the whole, and they fail in the same way when suppressed.
What Sanskrit, metabolism, and markets reveal about reductionism's deepest error.
What software maintenance teaches us about biological maintenance. Technical debt and metabolic debt are the same phenomenon in different substrates.
How post-viral illnesses are a blindspot for the medical establishment and which side of history will you be on?
What can we learn from jellyfish, fungi, and Will Smith on how to avoid making costly mistakes ?