Me too I feel like some of these ideas make a lot of sense from a neurological point of view, like evolution makes a lot of sense from a biological point of view. Indeed, for point 1) evolution is not falsifiable either. Popper pretended that some fossils like rabbits at −3Gy would falsified evolution, but that’s bullshit. It would destroy one family of biological models based on evolution, but it wouldn’t change one bit to the idea that evolution must apply each time you have replicators and environmental pressure. It’s tautologically true, the same way free energy principle must be a law each time what you want to describe obeys classical physics (or close enough).
So that’s why point 2) evolution apply to both bacteria and human brain; point 3) it’s easier to think of Mendel laws, but evolution need mutations (should that count as much as a prediction?); likewise for point 4) it may be easier to organize language models without evolution in mind, but memetic information will still thrive and/or cause alignment difficulties.
Points 5 is sound, and for point 6 I haven’t made my mind yet. For point 7, I think you have an excellent point. To me the basal ganglia feel like RL, hypothalamus feel like thermostat, the cerebellum feel like self-supervised learning, thalamocortical loops, colliculi, brainstem and spinal cord feel like maps and clocks, and none of that seems to come from first principles: it must come from our particular random evolutionary path. So, even if I disagree on some of your arguments, I still think your text represents a very serious point against FEP: strong upvote and thank you!
Me too I feel like some of these ideas make a lot of sense from a neurological point of view, like evolution makes a lot of sense from a biological point of view. Indeed, for point 1) evolution is not falsifiable either. Popper pretended that some fossils like rabbits at −3Gy would falsified evolution, but that’s bullshit. It would destroy one family of biological models based on evolution, but it wouldn’t change one bit to the idea that evolution must apply each time you have replicators and environmental pressure. It’s tautologically true, the same way free energy principle must be a law each time what you want to describe obeys classical physics (or close enough).
So that’s why point 2) evolution apply to both bacteria and human brain; point 3) it’s easier to think of Mendel laws, but evolution need mutations (should that count as much as a prediction?); likewise for point 4) it may be easier to organize language models without evolution in mind, but memetic information will still thrive and/or cause alignment difficulties.
Points 5 is sound, and for point 6 I haven’t made my mind yet. For point 7, I think you have an excellent point. To me the basal ganglia feel like RL, hypothalamus feel like thermostat, the cerebellum feel like self-supervised learning, thalamocortical loops, colliculi, brainstem and spinal cord feel like maps and clocks, and none of that seems to come from first principles: it must come from our particular random evolutionary path. So, even if I disagree on some of your arguments, I still think your text represents a very serious point against FEP: strong upvote and thank you!