Notes

• On the biological level abstractions are build in the brain
  • By this, we mean that the PFC consists of an action abstraction hierarchy whose core function is the potentiation and depotentiation of possible action plans at different levels of granularity.
  • the prefrontal cortex is evolved to abstract out patterns of action in abstraction so that they can be assessed and killed before being instantiated in behavior
• if-then thinking enables abstractions
• substraction; how abstractions leave things out; negative-space thinking brings this back

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