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Resonant Thoughts: Alex Hutchinson’s “The Explorer’s Gene” (2025)
“It turns out that minimizing surprise is equivalent to minimizing entropy, which in turn is equivalent to minimizing another mathematical quantity (borrowed from physics) called free energy. In this way, the goal of minimizing surprise explains both perception and action. We act […] in order to ensure that our predictions become self-fulfilling prophecies” (58). “The… Continue reading
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Notes On Dimensionality: Send-Returns And Footnotes
(Image: Jason Hise) In music production, a mixing console’s Send and Return system allows for sending an amount of a track’s audio to a separate Return track on which one can apply effects, such as reverb. This effects-processed sound is then returned to the original track and blended with it using the track’s Send control… Continue reading
