Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://utm.io/ueSXh Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. Karl Friston discuss the world as we perceive it through micro narratives, how those narratives exist within a structured hierarchy, and how we can manipulate the system, and thus change our own mindsets. Dr. Karl Friston is a renowned neuroscientist, and one of the leading researchers in brain imagery. He is credited for inventing statistical parametric mapping, an international standard for the analysis of imaging data. His work also pertains to the free energy principle, and predictive coding theory. Currently, he works as a professor of neuroscience at the University College London. — Sponsors  — Hallow: Try Hallow for 3 months FREE: https://hallow.com/jordan Invest in art today with Masterworks at http://masterworks.art/jbp.See important disclosures at https://masterworks.com/cd. — Chapters — (0:00) Coming up(1:04) Intro(2:43) The binding of entropy(5:25) Motivation and Fantasy(15:00) Hierarchy of micro narratives(29:30) Frans de Waal, the paradox in prediction(37:50) Inference and assuming the story(46:15) Dopamine and diatic narratives(54:33) Serotonin, the depressive mindset(1:07:31) Acetylcholine(1:10:29) The need to minimize free energy(1:16:48) The left and right hemisphere(1:22:20) Psychedelics and functional narratives  // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.com/youtubesignupDonations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate // COURSES //Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personalitySelf Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.comUnderstand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com // BOOKS //Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-lifeMaps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning // LINKS //Website: https://jordanbpeterson.comEvents: https://jordanbpeterson.com/eventsBlog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blogPodcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/podcast // SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpetersonInstagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.petersonFacebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpetersonTelegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPetersonAll socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson #JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

Curt Jaimungal is joined by Michael Levin, a regenerative biology expert known for creating anthrobots, and Karl Friston, a leading neuroscientist who formulated the free energy principle. They delve into how self-organization shapes our reality through entropy and noise. The conversation highlights the adaptability of biological systems and the role of creativity in evolution, examining the intersections of noise and identity. They also discuss psychological patterns and how our understanding of selfhood affects perceptions of existence and consciousness.

Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history, cited over 245,000 times, known for many influential ideas in brain imaging, neuroscience, and theoretical neurobiology, including the fascinating idea of the free-energy principle for action and perception. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: – Cash App – use code “LexPodcast” and download: – Cash App (App Store): https://apple.co/2sPrUHe – Cash App (Google Play): https://bit.ly/2MlvP5w EPISODE LINKS: Karl’s Website: https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/ Karl’s Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_J._Friston This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 – Introduction 01:50 – How much of the human brain do we understand? 05:53 – Most beautiful characteristic of the human brain 10:43 – Brain imaging 20:38 – Deep structure 21:23 – History of brain imaging 32:31 – Neuralink and brain-computer interfaces 43:05 – Free energy principle 1:24:29 – Meaning of life

In this episode, Darius Parvizi-Wayne interviews Karl Friston, the chief architect of active inference. They discuss the free energy principle, boundary states, and the mark of blanket. They explore the difference between a 'whats governor' and a human, minimizing expected surprise, and the role of priors. The conversation also covers beliefs and temporal depth in generative models, the free energy principle and the statistical manifold, and dynamics and flows in a random dynamical system. They touch on strange loops, the holographic principle, free will, and consciousness. The podcast ends with discussions on self-destructive behavior, imperatives and optimization in the free energy principle, and the philosophical debate on whether life is inherently good.

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This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar and Connor Leahy chat with Prof. Karl Friston. Professor Friston is a British neuroscientist at University College London and an authority on brain imaging. In 2016 he was ranked the most influential neuroscientist on Semantic Scholar.  His main contribution to theoretical neurobiology is the variational Free energy principle, also known as active inference in the Bayesian brain. The FEP is a formal statement that the existential imperative for any system which survives in the changing world can be cast as an inference problem. Bayesian Brain Hypothesis states that the brain is confronted with ambiguous sensory evidence, which it interprets by making inferences about the hidden states which caused the sensory data. So is the brain an inference engine? The key concept separating Friston's idea from traditional stochastic reinforcement learning methods and even Bayesian reinforcement learning is moving away from goal-directed optimisation. Remember to subscribe! Enjoy the show! 00:00:00 Show teaser intro  00:16:24 Main formalism for FEP  00:28:29 Path Integral  00:30:52 How did we feel talking to friston?  00:34:06 Skit - on cultures (checked, but maybe make shorter)  00:36:02 Friston joins  00:36:33 Main show introduction  00:40:51 Is prediction all it takes for intelligence?  00:48:21 balancing accuracy with flexibility  00:57:36 belief-free vs belief-based; beliefs are crucial   01:04:53 Fuzzy Markov Blankets and Wandering Sets   01:12:37 The Free Energy Principle conforms to itself   01:14:50 useful false beliefs  01:19:14 complexity minimization is the heart of free energy [01:19:14 ]Keith:   01:23:25 An Alpha to tip the scales? Absoute not! Absolutely yes!   01:28:47 FEP applied to brain anatomy   01:36:28 Are there multiple non-FEP forms in the brain?  01:43:11 a positive conneciton to backpropagation   01:47:12 The FEP does not explain the origin of FEP systems   01:49:32 Post-show banter  https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/ #machinelearning

Neuroscientist Karl Friston and researcher Joscha Bach discuss death, Ai, consciousness, and God. Topics include sentience vs. consciousness, overlapping realities, mortal computation, Ai surpassing humans, defining consciousness, multiple consciousnesses, psychedelic experiences, institutional rot, and existential crises.

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 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst 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

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKAKarl Friston is a British neuroscientist at University College London and an authority on the free energy principle and predictive coding theory.Patreon for conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, and God: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Help support conversations like this via PayPal: https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Google Podcasts: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Id3k7k7mfzahfx2fjqmw3vufb44 Discord Invite Code (as of Mar 04 2021): dmGgQ2dRzS Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverythingLINKS MENTIONED: Iain McGilchrist's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4 Donald Hoffman's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmieNQH7Q4w Anil Seth's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hUEqXhDbVs Stuart Hameroff's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLo0Zwe579g Machine Learning Street Talk's interview with Karl Friston (not mentioned but an informative watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkR24ieh5OwTIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:45 Balancing work and life with an h-index of 200+ 00:04:33 Daily routine 00:05:55 How to choose which problems to work on? 00:10:13 Defining "deflationary" and "self-evidencing" 00:14:33 Equilibrium vs non-equilibrium steady state 00:20:52 Why is it called the Free Energy Principle? 00:27:20 What is the Free Energy Principle? (two answers) 00:41:15 Is causation and time required for the FEP? 00:46:03 FEP incomplete because it doesn't incorporate relativity? 00:57:21 Schrödinger, entropy, gradient flow, and life 00:59:01 Why is the Free Energy Principle infamous for being esoteric? 01:01:00 Is FEP a TOE? A theory of everything? 01:03:20 Do atoms have "beliefs" in a Bayesian sense? 01:04:54 List of different fields FEP has implications for (physics, biology, AI, etc.) 01:17:47 On Occam's Razor and Artificial Intelligence 01:25:38 Newcomb's paradox 01:29:05 FEP - a Law of Nature or a different way of compressing? 01:36:50 Jordan Peterson's "order and chaos" and the FEP 01:50:51 Using brain structure to infer about the world 02:07:12 On hierarchies and modelling different "things" (tools don't behave like apples) 02:13:59 The importance of "shared narratives" 02:18:37 Religion as aiding "shared narratives" 02:22:43 Politics needs 50 / 50 splits on issues 02:25:53 The existence of free will and definition of it 02:28:43 Self fulfilling prophecies 02:31:37 Schizophrenia, Curt, and Karl 02:45:48 "You are your own existence proof." 02:48:03 Can you think yourself into non-existence? 02:51:33 Definition of generative model 02:54:06 Donald Hoffman's consciousness model 02:54:34 Quantum consciousness and Penrose's Orchestrated OR 02:59:41 What does FEP say about consciousness? 03:09:48 The meta-Hard Problem of Consciousness 03:15:22 Anna Lukomsky: Idealism vs Physicalism 03:28:13 Joanne Dong: Explain the meaning of life via the FEP 03:34:23 Monotheism vs Polytheism in terms of FEP and psychology 03:38:50 Faraz Honarvar: Do our actions matter to the world? 03:47:20 Final words on Schizophrenia and existential anxiety from studying different metaphysics* * *Subscribe if you want more conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, God, and the mathematics / physics of each.* * *I just finished (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3MThis podcast may be the most important one on this channel.Sponsors: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off. For Algo's podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ and website https://www.algo.com/. Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungalCrypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOEPayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOETwitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurtDiscord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqsiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfPSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4eSubreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverythingMerch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerchLINKS MENTIONED:-Part 1 with Karl Friston (technical): https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKATIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Exigent Message / Introduction00:07:25 The Free Energy Principle's TOE explained00:15:48 The FEP explained for physicists00:18:24 The "external world" is dual to "you"00:24:25 Relationship between senses and actions00:36:25 Marginal likelihood / Model evidencing00:54:34 Change your evidence or change your model (Repression vs. CBT)00:58:51 An exercise to show a difference in consciousness via touching one's eye01:03:09 Science "works" by definition of "works"!01:12:45 Advice for those trying to understand reality01:22:45 Dealing with derealization / spiraling mentally / depersonalization01:34:34 Don't let the social status of having "ego death" be your lure01:37:12 Acceptance therapy (ACT from CBT)01:43:09 Being too much in one's head (thought loops)01:53:09 How does Karl prevent existential crises when studying these issues?01:56:34 The benefits of tea and smoking (yes, smoking)01:59:28 Beta-blockers and fear extinction (Merel Kindt's groundbreaking work)* * *Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices