We engage in a bit of epistemic foraging with Prof. Karl Friston! In this show; we discuss the free energy principle in detail, also emergence, cognition, consciousness and Karl's burden of knowledge!

YT: https://youtu.be/xKQ-F2-o8uM

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Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud

[00:00:00] Introduction to FEP/Friston

[00:06:53] Cheers to Epistemic Foraging!

[00:09:17] The Burden of Knowledge Across Disciplines

[00:12:55] On-show introduction to Friston

[00:14:23] Simple does NOT mean Easy

[00:21:25] Searching for a Mathematics of Cognition

[00:26:44] The Low Road and The High Road to the Principle

[00:28:27] What's changed for the FEP in the last year

[00:39:36] FEP as stochastic systems with a pullback attractor

[00:44:03] An attracting set at multiple time scales and time infinity

[00:53:56] What about fuzzy Markov boundaries?

[00:59:17] Is reality densely or sparsely coupled?

[01:07:00] Is a Strong and Weak Emergence distinction useful?

[01:13:25] a Philosopher, a Zombie, and a Sentient Consciousness walk into a bar ... 

[01:24:28] Can we recreate consciousness in silico? Will it have qualia?

[01:28:29] Subjectivity and building hypotheses

[01:34:17] Subject specific realizations to minimize free energy

[01:37:21] Free will in a deterministic Universe

The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06387