The Free Energy Principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead

1

Introduction

00:00 • 2min

2

The Fundamental Laws of the Universe

02:10 • 4min

3

The Free Energy Principle

06:38 • 4min

4

The Free Energy Principle and the Multi-Scale Approach to Cognitive Systems

10:10 • 4min

5

The Importance of Carl Frisson in Neuroscience

14:06 • 5min

6

The Role of Active Inference in Sensory Phenomenology

19:09 • 2min

7

The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference

20:53 • 2min

8

The Variational Free Energy of Covariance Models

22:35 • 2min

9

The Role of Models in Mechanistic Explanation

24:56 • 3min

10

The Free Energy Principle and Predictability

27:45 • 3min

11

How Emotions Am Made

30:59 • 4min

12

The Four EA Approach to Emotions

35:06 • 5min

13

The Connection Between Mind and Cognition

39:43 • 2min

14

What Is Cognition?

41:38 • 5min

15

The Free Energy Principle and the Concept of Extended Cognition

46:53 • 3min

16

The Role of Blood Sugar in Cognition

49:58 • 3min

17

The Enembodied Mind

53:15 • 3min

18

The Inactive Approach to Visual Secades

56:35 • 2min

19

The Importance of Free Energy

58:37 • 3min

20

The Distribution of Ball Colors

01:01:44 • 4min

21

The Free Energy Principle and the Variational Framework

01:05:57 • 2min

22

The Power of Self-Organization in Complex Adaptive Systems

01:08:05 • 3min

23

The Free Energy Principle

01:11:01 • 3min

24

The Non-Equilibrium Stable State

01:14:15 • 4min

25

The Importance of Surprising

01:17:52 • 3min

26

The Importance of Prediction Error in the Environment

01:20:32 • 2min

27

The Dark Room Problem

01:22:58 • 5min

28

The Implications of Sharing a Social World

01:27:42 • 3min

29

Sharing the Same Expectations and Prior Beliefs About the World

01:30:44 • 2min

30

Hyper-Scanning and Social Scanning

01:32:14 • 3min

31

The Full Pipeline

01:35:26 • 5min

32

The Meta-Bazian Meta-Science

01:40:18 • 3min

33

The Limits of Social Systems

01:42:54 • 2min

34

The Active and the Active Inference Formulation Is Symmetrical

01:44:59 • 3min

35

The Problem With the Internet and Human Rights

01:48:00 • 3min

36

The Problem With Social Media Signaling

01:51:10 • 3min

37

The Rise of Identity-Centered Politics

01:54:15 • 4min

38

The Importance of Equality of Opportunity

01:57:45 • 2min

39

The Disadvantages of Ethics in Science

01:59:48 • 2min

40

The Free Energy Principle and Morality

02:01:46 • 2min

41

The Importance of Morality in a Shared Generic Model

02:03:37 • 3min

42

The Implications of the Free Energy Principle for Humanity

02:06:20 • 2min

43

The Disembodied Ideal of a Rational Actor

02:08:01 • 4min

44

The Evolution of the Human Thought Process

02:11:53 • 4min

45

The Importance of Beliefs in Climate Change

02:15:53 • 2min

46

The Importance of Prestige

02:18:22 • 2min

47

The Economy of Cues

02:20:11 • 3min

48

The Rigidifying of the Generative Model as You Grow Older

02:23:37 • 3min

49

The Importance of Interpretation

02:26:48 • 2min

50

The Importance of Humility

02:29:01 • 2min

51

The Non-Equilibrium Stable State Process

02:30:54 • 3min

52

The Need to Survive

02:33:33 • 2min

53

The Limitations of the Formalism for Non-Equilibrium Stable State Systems

02:35:10 • 2min

54

The Importance of Morality

02:37:09 • 2min

55

The Importance of Adaptation

02:38:57 • 5min

56

How to Construct a Generative Model That Captures the Complexity of the Phenomenon

02:43:41 • 2min

57

How to Be an Active Inference Researcher

02:45:55 • 3min