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Really appreciated! Especially given that this paper is not an easy read. The breakdown and the description of its relationship to p-factor (including the inclusion of a psyarxiv paper posted just yesterday by nostr:npub19un7mvsyxszkhxfq276nwf89avwce4jwcasvuzdxqzgtjmprppqql2gacg ++) is all really interesting and exceedingly helpful!

For anyone wanting more before the click:

The heart of the paper is the notion of “canalization.” The basic idea can be stated quite simply: it refers to how features of the mind, brain, or behavior become less able to change in a non-specific way.

Canalization serves here as a “powerful bridging construct” that connects many different ideas:
Entrenchment of a psychological phenotype
Dynamical attractors in dynamical systems 
Minimization of variational “free energy” (i.e., a quantitative, statistical score of surprise or uncertainty)
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