An agent does not have a model of its world - it is a model. In other words, the form, structure, and states of our embodied brains do not contain a model of the sensorium - they are that model. Every aspect of our brain and body can be predicted from our environment

Karl J. Friston

The conditional probability distribution induced by a given network and loss in supervised learning

Neural Networks as Statistical Models — Part 1

How a network and a loss function induce a conditional probability distribution, and why this probabilistic view is beneficial.