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Morality, an error from the Trickster god

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Proposal to frame morality as a prediction error, by drawing on and modifying previous formalisms within the Active Inference framework. Drawing also on the connection, previously theorized, between humanity's innate moral impulses and general symbolic capacity. 

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Journal: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1269621 (DOI)

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