Fox Stephen
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland.
Entropy (Basel). 2021 Mar 26;23(4):396. doi: 10.3390/e23040396.
Unlike ecosystem engineering by other living things, which brings a relatively limited range of sensations that are connected to a few enduring survival preferences, human ecosystem engineering brings an increasing variety and frequency of novel sensations. Many of these novel sensations can quickly become preferences as they indicate that human life will be less strenuous and more stimulating. Furthermore, they can soon become addictive. By contrast, unwanted surprise from these novel sensations may become apparent decades later. This recognition can come after the survival of millions of humans and other species has been undermined. In this paper, it is explained that, while multiscale free energy provides a useful hypothesis for framing human ecosystem engineering, disconnects between preferences and survival from human ecosystem engineering limit the application of current assumptions that underlie continuous state-space and discrete state-space modelling of active inference.
与其他生物进行的生态系统工程不同，其他生物带来的感觉范围相对有限，且与一些持久的生存偏好相关联，而人类生态系统工程带来的新感觉种类和频率却在不断增加。这些新感觉中的许多很快就会成为偏好，因为它们表明人类生活将不那么费力且更具刺激性。此外，它们很快就可能会让人上瘾。相比之下，这些新感觉带来的不良意外可能在几十年后才会显现出来。这种认识可能在数百万人类和其他物种的生存受到破坏之后才会出现。本文解释了，虽然多尺度自由能为构建人类生态系统工程提供了一个有用的假设，但人类生态系统工程中偏好与生存之间的脱节限制了当前假设的应用，这些假设是主动推理的连续状态空间和离散状态空间建模的基础。
