Introduction

In this first episode of Active Inference Insights, Darius Parvizi-Wayne sits down with the chief architect of active inference, Karl Friston. Professor Friston is a theoretician working University College London, Chief Scientist at the artificial intelligence company VERSES, and the most highly cited neuroscientist of all time. In this episode, he and Darius unpick the formalisms underlying active inference, as well as it its deep theoretical implications, from consciousness to time and beyond.