This piece really made me think about how much 'exformation' is truly a learned process, where our brains, much like a well-trained AI, becme incredibly adept at not just filtering but discerning what to discard to percieve the signal from the noise, which is just so incredibly fascinating.
It's been a really essential framing for me. I suspect that one of the functions of dreaming is to turn the nearest neighbour search off, letting the system explore associations that waking exformation would normally prune
This piece really made me think about how much 'exformation' is truly a learned process, where our brains, much like a well-trained AI, becme incredibly adept at not just filtering but discerning what to discard to percieve the signal from the noise, which is just so incredibly fascinating.
It's been a really essential framing for me. I suspect that one of the functions of dreaming is to turn the nearest neighbour search off, letting the system explore associations that waking exformation would normally prune