Of woodlice and men: A Bayesian account of cognition, life and consciousness. An interview with Karl Friston.

In this interview, Karl Friston discusses the origins and implications of the Free Energy Principle (FEP), from childhood observations of woodlice to a comprehensive framework for understanding cognition, life, and consciousness. Friston recounts how watching woodlice scurry in sunlight and slow in shade led to the insight that biological self-organization can be explained by principles of self-organization. The conversation covers the FEP's relationship to Bayesian inference, predictive process

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