Selection and the Just World Fallacy

One thing that recently just struck me is that people (including me) often have a strong intutive sense of the just world fallacy when it comes to personal traits. People assume that if somebody has some great strength they must also have a great weakness. That if they are really... [Read More]

Intellectual Progress in 2020

The yearly intellectual progress report is a little late this year due to having to write up a PhD. Now that the PhD thesis beast is at least somewhat tamed, in a breather, I can try to figure out what progress I have made this year. [Read More]

Thoughts on the Falsifiability of the Free Energy Principle

Since the publication of the defining Particular Physics monograph, a question which has been repeatedly raised is whether the Free Energy Principle (FEP) is falsifiable. In the literature, it is argued that the FEP is merely a principle and thus supposedly immune from falsification. This point is often made with... [Read More]