Karl Friston is a British neuroscientist at University College London and an authority on the free energy principle and predictive coding theory.

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LINKS MENTIONED:
Iain McGilchrist's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4
Donald Hoffman's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmieNQH7Q4w
Anil Seth's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hUEqXhDbVs
Stuart Hameroff's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLo0Zwe579g

NOT MENTIONED BUT INFORMATIVE AND PERTINENT:
Machine Learning Street Talk's interview with Karl Friston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkR24ieh5Ow


TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:45 Balancing work and life with an h-index of 200+
00:04:33 Daily routine
00:05:55 How to choose which problems to work on?
00:10:13 Defining "deflationary" and "self-evidencing"
00:14:33 Equilibrium vs non-equilibrium steady state
00:20:52 Why is it called the Free Energy Principle?
00:27:20 What is the Free Energy Principle? (two answers)
00:41:15 Is causation and time required for the FEP?
00:46:03 FEP incomplete because it doesn't incorporate relativity?
00:57:21 Schrödinger, entropy, gradient flow, and life
00:59:01 Why is the Free Energy Principle infamous for being esoteric?
01:01:00 Is FEP a TOE? A theory of everything?
01:03:20 Do atoms have "beliefs" in a Bayesian sense?
01:04:54 List of different fields FEP has implications for (physics, biology, AI, etc.)
01:17:47 On Occam's Razor and Artificial Intelligence
01:25:38 Newcomb's paradox
01:29:05 FEP - a Law of Nature or a different way of compressing?
01:36:50 Jordan Peterson's "order and chaos" and the FEP
01:50:51 Using brain structure to infer about the world
02:07:12 On hierarchies and modelling different "things" (tools don't behave like apples)
02:13:59 The importance of "shared narratives"
02:18:37 Religion as aiding "shared narratives"
02:22:43 Politics needs 50 / 50 splits on issues
02:25:53 The existence of free will and definition of it
02:28:43 Self fulfilling prophecies
02:31:37 Schizophrenia, Curt, and Karl
02:45:48 "You are your own existence proof."
02:48:03 Can you think yourself into non-existence?
02:51:33 Definition of generative model
02:54:06 Donald Hoffman's consciousness model
02:54:34 Quantum consciousness and Penrose's Orchestrated OR
02:59:41 What does FEP say about consciousness?
03:09:48 The meta-Hard Problem of Consciousness
03:15:22 Anna Lukomsky: Idealism vs Physicalism
03:28:13 Joanne Dong: Explain the meaning of life via the FEP
03:34:23 Monotheism vs Polytheism in terms of FEP and psychology
03:38:50 Faraz Honarvar: Do our actions matter to the world?
03:47:20 Final words on Schizophrenia and existential anxiety from studying different metaphysics

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