The Innovation Show
Mark Solms - The Hidden Spring Part 7: Free Energy
Aug 17, 2023
Mark Solms, author of The Hidden Spring, discusses the Free Energy Principle, Homeostasis, and the neuroscience of innovation. Topics include Markov Blankets, maintaining organization against entropy, predictive models, and self-organization in nature.
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Quick takeaways
- Feeling is intricately connected to maintaining homeostasis, suggesting a mechanistic understanding of consciousness.
- The law of effect dictates that rewarding actions and avoiding punishment are guiding principles, reducible to formal equations in science.
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Understanding the Free Energy Principle and Self-Organizing Systems
The podcast delves into the concept of homeostasis, where deviations feel bad and returns feel good as necessary for life. Feeling is linked to maintaining homeostasis and can be reduced to mechanistic laws. Fristen's work reduced homeostasis to an equation, suggesting that consciousness can be similarly understood as a mechanistic law.
