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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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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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