Active Inference · Paper · 2018

Of woodlice and men: A Bayesian account of cognition, life and consciousness (with Karl Friston)

Karl Friston, Martin Fortier, Daniel Friedman

ALIUS Bulletin

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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 simple thermodynamic...

Free Energy PrincipleKarl FristonBayesian brainpredictive processingMarkov blanketconsciousnessself-organizationvariational inferencephilosophy of mind

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Findings / Concepts
  • 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 cognit
Methods / Techniques
  • Active inference modeling of consciousness
  • Bayesian mechanics of self-organizing systems
  • Philosophical analysis of Markov blanket formalism

Citation

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Friedman, Daniel Ari. 2018. Of woodlice and men: A Bayesian account of cognition, life and consciousness (with Karl Friston). ALIUS Bulletin. DOI: 10.34700/h460-nz89. URL: https://doi.org/10.34700/h460-nz89.

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