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Account indefinitely suspended due to lack of engagement. Still posting on the other site.
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Article: "Noise as a diagnostic tool: Distinguishing System/Device Effects in Multimodal Neuroimaging" Coauthors: Erik D. Fagerholm, Hirokazu Tanaka, Gregory Scott, Robert Leech, Frederico E. Turkheimer, Peter Zeidman, Milan Brazdil
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Comments on "Micah's New Law of Thermodynamics" Presenter: Micah Blumberg
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Interview: "The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience, and Artificial Intelligence" Host: Ryan Anderson
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#72 Prof. Karl Friston - The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience & Artificial Intelligence
YouTube video by AWONDERJUNKIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxKrOzRaXuY
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Chapter: "Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity" Coauthors: Frederik Van de Steen, Peter Zeidman, Dimitris A. Pinotsis, Guy Nagels, Daniele Marinazzo
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Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity
This chapter is about modeling brain responses and estimating effective connectivity using functional neuroimaging techniques. It also introduces dynamic causal models. These models allow us to infer ...
https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-0716-4438-6_8
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Article: "Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference" Coauthors: Victor Casamayor Pujol, Boris Sedlak, Tommaso Salvatori, Schahram Dustdar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24618
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Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference
The Computing Continuum (CC) is an emerging Internet-based computing paradigm that spans from local Internet of Things sensors and constrained edge devices to large-scale cloud data centers. Its goal ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24618
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Article: "AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models" First author: Conor Heins
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784
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AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models
Current deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches achieve state-of-the-art performance in various domains, but struggle with data efficiency compared to human learning, which leverages core priors ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784
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Article: "Neural mechanisms of disease pathology and cognition in young-onset Alzheimer's disease variants" First author: Seda Sacu
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Article: "Adaptive consolidation of active inference: excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms for organizing feedforward and feedback memory systems in sleep" Coauthors: Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu
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AMA (Ask Me Anything) Host:
@mjdramstead.bsky.social
@noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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AMA, May 2025 - Karl Friston - "In simple terms, what is the FEP?"
YouTube video by Noumenal Labs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ePTcxoynjQ
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Article: "Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle" Coauthor:
@tspisak.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
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Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle
Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
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Lecture: "The Physics of Sentience" Host: Deep RL Course
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Interview: "Healing and the Nature of Self" Host: New Thinking Allowed
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Healing and the Nature of Self with Karl Friston
YouTube video by New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziD2daE3i1U
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Inaugural Monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything): May 30, 12:30pm EST Host:
@mjdramstead.bsky.social
for
@noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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Article: "The Functional Anatomy of Nociception: Effective Connectivity in Chronic Pain and Placebo Response" Coauthors: Sanjeev Nara, Marwan N. Baliki, Dipanjan Ray
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.10.584304v2.full.pdf
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Article: "Neurophysiological progression in Alzheimer's disease: insights from dynamic causal modelling of longitudinal magnetoencephalography" First author: Amirhossein Jafarian
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Neurophysiological progression in Alzheimer's disease: insights from dynamic causal modelling of longitudinal magnetoencephalography
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, are characterised by selective neuronal vulnerability with regional, laminar, cellular and neurotransmitter specificity. The regional losses ...
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/811324c3-5d94-4cdf-9397-6d9d852d9da8
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Article: "A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment" Coauthors: Melissa Reneaux, Helen Mayberg, Dimitris A. Pinotsis
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Frontiers | A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2025.1472732/full
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Article: "Priors and proprioceptive predictions" Coauthors: Thomas Parr,
@mjdramstead.bsky.social
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Priors and proprioceptive predictions
This review presents an approach to motor control inspired by the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis. The core idea is that, to realise a motor plan, one ne…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154625000282
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Article: "The meltdown pathway: A multidisciplinary account of autistic meltdowns" Coauthors: Paul A. Soden, Anjali Bhat, Adam K. Anderson
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Article: "An active inference explanation of discriminatory cognition with regard to social attitudes and harmful behaviour." Coauthors: HĂ©ctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hector-Manrique-2/publication/391156464_An_active_inference_explanation_of_discriminatory_cognition_with_regard_to_social_attitudes_and_harmful_behaviour/links/680be59bbfbe974b23bb93aa/An-active-inference-explanation-of-discriminatory-cognition-with-regard-to-social-attitudes-and-harmful-behaviour.pdf
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Article: "How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience" Coauthors:
@chrisfields38.bsky.social
, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer,
@mjdramstead.bsky.social
, Adam Safron
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How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience
Abstract. This paper examines the constraints that the free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models of attent
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2025/1/niaf009/8117684?login=false
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Article: "Resilience Phenotypes Derived from an Active Inference Account of Allostasis" Coauthors: Laura A. Harrison, Antonio A. Gracias, J. Galen Buckwalter
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Frontiers | Resilience Phenotypes Derived from an Active Inference Account of Allostasis
Within a theoretical framework of enactive allostasis, we explore active inference strategies for minimizing surprise to achieve resilience in dynamic enviro...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1524722/abstract
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Article: "Cortical dynamics of neural-connectivity fields" Coauthors: Gerald K. Cooray, Vernon Cooray
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Cortical dynamics of neural-connectivity fields - Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Macroscopic studies of cortical tissue reveal a prevalence of oscillatory activity, that reflect a fine tuning of neural interactions. This research extends neural field theories by incorporating gene...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10827-025-00903-8
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Lecture: "The Physics of Communication" Host: Cultural Data Analytics
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Karl Friston: The physics of communication.
YouTube video by CUDANLab
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Article: "Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention" Coauthors: Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo
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Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention
This paper asks what predictive processing models of brain function can learn from the success of transformer architectures. We suggest that the reason transformer architectures have been successfu...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17588928.2025.2484485
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Article: "Agentic rulebooks using active inference: An artificial intelligence application for environmental sustainability" Coauthors: Alex Constant, Mahault Albarracin, Marco Perin, Hari Thiruvengada
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Frontiers | Agentic rulebooks using active inference: An artificial intelligence application for environmental sustainability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly proposed as a solution to environmental sustainability challenges, with applications aimed at optimizing resourc...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2025.1571613/abstract
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Article: "Dynamic Causal Models in infectious disease epidemiologyan assessment of their predictive validity based on the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK 2020 to 20204" Coauthor: Cam Bowie
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Frontiers | Dynamic Causal Models in infectious disease epidemiologyan assessment of their predictive validity based on the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK 2020 to 2024
This technical report addresses the predictive validity of long-term epidemiological forecasting based upon dynamic causal modelling. It uses complementary p...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1573783/abstract
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Comment: "Can a single brain cell be surprised?"
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Can a single brain cell be surprised? - Nature Communications
A recent study by Buonomano et al. reports two important contributions; namely, empirical evidence for prediction error-like responses in single cells, using ex vivo preparations and optogenetics. Sec...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57975-4
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Article: "Renormalising generative models" Coauthors: C. Heins, T. Verbelen, L. Da Costa, T. Salvatori, D. Markovic, A. Tschantz, M. Koudahl, C. Buckley, T. Parr
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Frontiers | Renormalising generative models
This paper describes a discrete state-space model-and accompanying methods-for generative modelling. This model generalises partially observed Markov decisio...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/network-physiology/articles/10.3389/fnetp.2025.1521963/abstract
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Lecture: "How the Brain Makes Predictions" Host: Tevin Naidu
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How The Brain Makes Predictions | Karl Friston
YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM3YINvDZsY
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Article: "Cross-Frequency Coupling as a Neural Substrate for Prediction Error Evaluation: A Laminar Neural Mass Modeling Approach" Coauthors: Giulio Ruffini, Edmundo Lopez-Sola, Raul Palma, Roser Sanchez-Todo, Jakub Vohryzek, Francesca Castaldo
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Cross-Frequency Coupling as a Neural Substrate for Prediction Error Evaluation: A Laminar Neural Mass Modeling Approach
Predictive coding frameworks suggest that neural computations rely on hierarchical error minimization, where sensory signals are evaluated against internal model predictions. However, the neural imple...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.19.644090v3.abstract
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Article: "Meta-Representational Predictive Coding: Biomimetic Self-Supervised Learning" Coauthors: Alexander G. Ororbia, Rajesh P. N. Rao
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Article: "Interictal discharges spread along local recurrent networks between tubers and surrounding cortex" Coauthors: Stasa Tumpa, Rachel Thornton, Martin M. Tisdall, Torsten Baldeweg, Richard E. Rosch
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Interictal discharges spread along local recurrent networks between tubers and surrounding cortex
Abstract figure legendInterictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) indicate irritable cortex and may arise from brain lesions such as cortical tubers in tuberous sclerosis. Here, we identify IEDs in int...
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/JP288141
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Article: "Priors and proprioceptive predictions" Coauthors: Thomas Parr,
@mjdramstead.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Priors and proprioceptive predictions
This review presents an approach to motor control inspired by the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis. The core idea is that, to realise a motor plan, one ne…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154625000282
8 months ago
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Article: "Robust Decision-Making Via Free Energy Minimization" Coauthors: Allahkaram Shafiei, Hozefa Jesawada, Giovanni Russo
arxiv.org/abs/2503.13223
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Robust Decision-Making Via Free Energy Minimization
Despite their groundbreaking performance, state-of-the-art autonomous agents can misbehave when training and environmental conditions become inconsistent, with minor mismatches leading to undesirable ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13223
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Article: "Towards a theory of biological intelligence" Coauthors: Sabrina Trapp, Erich Schröger, Thomas Parr
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Towards a theory of biological intelligence
There exists an underexplored correlation between intelligence and perceptual discrimination. Perceptual discrimination can be understood through the …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X25000121?casa_token=ZxkaV6ccpTgAAAAA:yhT9CcVcIEWOWr31MXkuKPINyA7C7BJKKRHC-e_u77v0McBwbD34Y6VvSMMusMAqbfUWprqCaw
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Article: "Active Inference and Intentional Behavior" Coauthors on Bsky:
@adeelrazi.bsky.social
@mjdramstead.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/neco/article...
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https://direct.mit.edu/neco/article-pdf/doi/10.1162/neco_a_01738/2506531/neco_a_01738.pdf
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Presentation: "Deep Inference" Host: Mohammed Khalil, Morocco AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83Y...
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MoroccoAI Conference 2024 - Keynote - Prof. Karl Friston
YouTube video by MoroccoAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83YKTD6bno
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Interview: "On Culture, 4E Cognition, and Physics" Host:
@thedissenteryt.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sak...
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#1066 Karl Friston: The Free Energy Principle, Culture, 4E Cognition, and Physics
YouTube video by The Dissenter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SakgSepQOU
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Article: "Testing the role of spontaneous activity in visuospatial perception with patterned optogenetics" Coauthors on Bluesky:
@jfiorilli.bsky.social
@rafaelyuste.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Testing the role of spontaneous activity in visuospatial perception with patterned optogenetics
A major debate in the field of consciousness pertains to whether neuronal activity or rather the causal structure of neural circuits underlie the generation of conscious experience. The former positio...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0318863
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Article: "Mapping conservative Fokker–Planck entropy in neural systems" Coauthors: Erik Fagerholm, Gregory Scott, Robert Leech, Frederico Turkheimer, Milan Brazdil
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Mapping conservative Fokker–Planck entropy in neural systems - IOPscienceSearch
Mapping conservative Fokker–Planck entropy in neural systems, Fagerholm, Erik D, Scott, Gregory, Leech, Robert, Turkheimer, Federico E, Friston, Karl J, Brázdil, Milan
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/adb318/meta
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Conversation with
@grealone.bsky.social
: "Intelligence in the Age of Agents" Host: Olivier Oullier
www.verses.ai/blog/firesid...
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Fireside Chat with Professor Karl Friston on Intelligence in the Age of Agents
Discover how Genius™ enables domain-specific expert agents that are more reliable, explainable, and efficient at reasoning and generating predictions.
https://www.verses.ai/blog/fireside-chat-with-professor-karl-friston-on-intelligence-in-the-age-of-agents
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Patent: "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROBABILISTIC QUERYING OF A VECTOR GRAPH DATABASE" Coinventors: 17 in number
www.freepatentsonline.com/y2025/005356...
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Conversation with Michael Levin: "How Free Energy Constructs Our Reality" Host: Curt Jaimungal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yOV...
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How Free Energy Constructs Our Reality
YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yOV9Pzk2zw
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Lecture: "The Physics of Motivation" Host:
@philcorlett.bsky.social
medicine.yale.edu/event/yale-p...
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Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Flynn Lecture: "The Physics of Motivation"
02/07/2025 event : Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "The Physics of Motivation" Karl Friston, FRS, FMedSci, FRSB, Professor of Imaging Neuroscience/Wellcome
https://medicine.yale.edu/event/yale-psychiatry-grand-rounds-flynn-lecture-the-physics-of-motivation/
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Conversation with Travis Oliphant (Davos 2025) Host: Oliver Oullier
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3P...
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Davos 2025: Karl Friston and Travis Oliphant
YouTube video by VERSES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3PYWxkyLc
9 months ago
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Interview at Davos 2025: "The limits of LLMs, the future with Agents and his work with VERSES" Host: Oliver Oullier
www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKi...
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Davos 2025: Fireside Chat with Professor Karl Friston
YouTube video by VERSES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKigK4jpOk
9 months ago
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Interview: "Consciousness and the Dawn of Mind" Host:
@drjamescooke.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKWA...
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Karl Friston on Consciousness & The Dawn of Mind | Living Mirrors #141
YouTube video by Dr. James Cooke - Inner Space Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKWAVhOxYZA
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Article: "Predictive processing: Shedding light on the computational processes underlying motivated behavior" Coauthors: Lieke L. F. van Lieshout, Zhaoqi Zhang, Harold Bekkering
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Predictive processing: Shedding light on the computational processes underlying motivated behavior | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Predictive processing: Shedding light on the computational processes underlying motivated behavior - Volume 48
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/predictive-processing-shedding-light-on-the-computational-processes-underlying-motivated-behavior/6AF09A360202E9309688D87500DE45D2
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Article: "As One and Many: Relating Individual and Emergent Group-Level Generative Models in Active Inference" Coauthors: Peter Thestrup Waade, Christoffer Lundba, Olesen, Jonathan Ehrenreich Laursen
@samuelnehrer.bsky.social
Conor Heins, Christoph Mathys
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...
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As One and Many: Relating Individual and Emergent Group-Level Generative Models in Active Inference
Active inference under the Free Energy Principle has been proposed as an across-scales compatible framework for understanding and modelling behaviour and self-maintenance. Crucially, a collective of a...
https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/2/143
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