The Mathematical Boundary Between You And The Universe | Karl Friston On The Free Energy Principle

Sponsored by Consensus: the AI powered science search engine with access to 220+ million studies. Click: https://get.consensus.app/essentia for a free trial of Consensus Pro and 30% discount on a yearly plan. Prof. Karl Friston is the most cited neuroscientist in the world, renowned for pioneering the framework of active inference and for developing the influential Free Energy Principle (FEP). In this conversation with Hans Busstra, Friston touches on the metaphysics of his FEP, which surprisingly points to non-dualism instead of materialism, as widely assumed. According to Friston, space and time, the self, and even the FEP itself are mere stories, useful fictions with real explanatory power, which do not give us direct access to the noumenal reality. Selected papers by Karl Friston: Friston, K. (2019). A free energy principle for a particular physics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10184. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10184 Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(2), 127–138. https://www.nature.com/articles/… Friston, K. (2019). A free energy principle for a particular physics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10184.https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10184