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Great read - really enjoyed the personal musings of your own experience. I think you are on to something with the brain as predictive machine and how different engagements with the world impact your emotional state.

You may find this research paper by Mark Miller interesting on the "Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17540739211063851

It lays out the predictive hypothesis in more detail and how happiness / flourishing / homeostatic + allostatic control relate to our "model". Curious to get your thoughts on it and how it resonates with how you think about things!

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Thank you for sharing! This is incredible - the premise of using affect as a mechanism for error reduction resonates completely with what I was thinking.

Excited to dive into this work + the work of Karl Friston / other authors in computational psychiatry further and apply more mathematical rigor to some of these ideas.

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