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The insanely convenient thing about the stimuli we're supplied is that it's been filtered by the facts of physics, biology and so on for us. We simply don't receive stimuli about anything that's truly impossible or paradoxical.
The content of the stimulus set is always structured in a 'fit' way that's authoritative. What we're given is a set that is entirely populated by patterns which are not-incompatible.
We build inferential identities out of these in accord with how consistent all of the sub-patterns are. Inference is just the 'inertial' response of the representations of spatial and temporal pattern, filling in whatever bits seem inconsistent (conflicting with generalization).
Among other things, this helps us explain why some of our sensors, all of which receive information about both self/body and environment, have been refined by evolution to a form which is concentrated on the exogenous information.
It's an instrumental thing. Around about every tenth of a second, the brain composites a complete impression of what's going on around and inside us. What we have to do, what we're 'for', is editing the parts of the composition that are about what we will or won't do.
The bias-complex is such that we are supposed to choose outcomes, relative to an immediately dominant bias, which is an improvement over what we would have experienced had we acted (or not) otherwise.
The whole point is basically to compose a layer of relationships which creates a better fit between what's going on inside, and what's going on outside. That's coordinated equilibration.
Cross-link to include another expression of the whole: https://twitter.com/chophshiy/status/1260661396930310144
