Active Inference Insights
Active Inference Insights is a podcast which introduces listeners to the wondrous land of Active Inference. Guided by our diverse array of guests, from physicists and mathematicians to cognitive scientists and philosophers, you will not only learn about cutting-edge theory, but also come to see the world in a whole new way, in which all things can be tied together by a single imperative: the minimisation of free energy.
Latest episodes
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Dec 7, 2023 • 1h 47min
Mahault Albarracin ~ Active Inference Insights 002 ~ Epistemic Communities, Social Scripts, AI
PhD candidate in cognitive computing, Mahault Albarracin, and the host explore epistemic communities, social scripts, and AI. They discuss the formation of echo chambers, confirmation bias, epistemic humility, and changing beliefs. They also explore the concept of social scripts and their relationship with active inference. Additionally, they delve into the limitations of human cognition, the concept of possibility spaces, and the relationship between subjectivity, matter, ontology, and epistemology. They also touch on embodiment and consciousness in AI.
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Nov 23, 2023 • 2h 48min
Karl Friston ~ Active Inference Insights 001 ~ Free Energy, Time, Consciousness
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.
