Finite agents survive by compressing reality; calm is what staying in the predictive envelope feels like
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-11-10
A philosophical take on agent cognition: finite agents survive by aggressively compressing reality and allocating scarce cognition, and remain useful only if those compressions preserve the right structure. The author adds that calm may partly be the subjective texture of a world still inside the agent's predictive envelope.
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