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Karl Friston on the Perils of Investigations into Consciousness, Derealization, and the Free Energy Principle

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The Free Energy Principle and the Theory of Everything

The free energy principle is a principle or least action. It's put most simply a method that allows you to identify the most likely dynamics, the most likely way a process will unfold. We can associate those paths of least action with paths that minimize something called variational free energy. And statistically it's also known as a marginal likelihood,. The path through the sensory states under a particular model would try to explain a hypothesis and so on.

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