Mahon McCann #87 - Colin Deyoung & Adam Safron - Integrating CB5T and The Free Energy Principle
New podcast with Colin Deyoung & Adam Safron on their integration of Cybernetic Big five Personality theory and the Active Inference Framework to model persons for therapeutic purposes and possibly the creation of better AI.
Colin Deyoung is a personality psychologist, personality neuroscientist, the creator of the Cybernetic Big Five Personality theory and the associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, and a former student of Jordan Peterson.
Adam Safron, Ph. D., is a Cognitive Scientist and psychologist who studies the nature of preferences and motivation from mechanistic, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives. Recently, he has proposed a model of embodied agency and free will and is working on a unified mechanistic account of psychedelics.
Check out their paper!!!
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/653wp
Watch the full conversation 👇
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Cybernetics and the Free Energy Principle
11:07 The Big Five Theory in Personality Psychology
14:24 Integrating Cybernetics and the Free Energy Principle
21:08 The Motivation for Integrating Cybernetics and Personality Psychology
22:57 Personality Traits as Control Parameters in Cybernetic Systems
27:21 The Contextual Nature of Personality Traits
30:34 The Relationship Between Personality Traits and World Models
35:59 The Interplay Between Stability and Plasticity in Personality Traits
40:42 Relevance Realization and Personality Traits
43:07 The Role of Personality Traits in Solving the Frame Problem
47:13 Inactivism and Computationalism
51:20 The Role of Representation
54:41 Embodiment and Extended Cognition
59:02 Examining the Homunculus and Cartesian Theater
01:04:39 The Role of the Hippocampus
01:08:03 The Connection Between the Hippocampus and Narrative
01:12:37 Understanding Cortical Gradients
01:14:44 The Complex Relationship Between Embodiment, Self-Modeling, and Consciousness
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