
Kathryn Nave
Leverhulme Trust early career research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, researching autonomy and agency in living systems and author of "A Drive to Survive."
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Jun 20, 2024 • 1h 48min
Kathryn Nave ~ Active Inference Insights 020 ~ Agency, Vision, Life
Kathryn Nave, an expert in the Free Energy Principle and active inference, discusses agency, teleology, causality, constraints, predictability, attractor sets, memory transformation, human agency, perception, predictive processing, and consciousness in living systems.

Feb 3, 2025 • 1h 18min
#1054 Kathryn Nave - A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life
Kathryn Nave, an early career research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, dives deep into autonomy and agency in living systems. The discussion kicks off with enactivism, reinterpreting cognition as active engagement rather than mere thought. Nave explains the Free Energy Principle, linking energy, goals, and survival in living beings. She also contrasts living agents with machines, highlighting goal-directed behaviors even in simple organisms. Ultimately, the conversation uncovers complex interactions between perception, action, and the environment.