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Confucian Free Energy: The Predictive Mind in Ancient China
2020-03-12
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<p>Roger Ames presents an interpretation of the classic Confucian philosophy where the world is seen as an always ongoing, radically interrelational, holistic process best described in terms of focus and field. Without any permanent ground truth, its inhabitants must be action-oriented way-makers: irreducibly social optimizers, and contextual co-creators, of their shared cosmos. Meanwhile, a prag- matic turn is ha...
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- 10.31234/osf.io/zm245