#87 - Colin Deyoung & Adam Safron - Integrating CB5T and The Free Energy Principle

New podcast with Colin Deyoung & Adam Safron on their integration of Cybernetic Big five Personality theory and the Active Inference Framework to model persons for therapeutic purposes and possibly the creation of better AI. Colin Deyoung is a personality psychologist, personality neuroscientist, the creator of the Cybernetic Big Five Personality theory and the associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, and a former student of Jordan Peterson. Adam Safron, Ph. D., is a Cognitive Scientist and psychologist who studies the nature of preferences and motivation from mechanistic, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives. Recently, he has proposed a model of embodied agency and free will and is working on a unified mechanistic account of psychedelics. Check out their paper!!! https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/653wp Watch the full conversation 👇 https://youtu.be/ldrtI9CrlSU Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Cybernetics and the Free Energy Principle 11:07 The Big Five Theory in Personality Psychology 14:24 Integrating Cybernetics and the Free Energy Principle 21:08 The Motivation for Integrating Cybernetics and Personality Psychology 22:57 Personality Traits as Control Parameters in Cybernetic Systems 27:21 The Contextual Nature of Personality Traits 30:34 The Relationship Between Personality Traits and World Models 35:59 The Interplay Between Stability and Plasticity in Personality Traits 40:42 Relevance Realization and Personality Traits 43:07 The Role of Personality Traits in Solving the Frame Problem 47:13 Inactivism and Computationalism 51:20 The Role of Representation 54:41 Embodiment and Extended Cognition 59:02 Examining the Homunculus and Cartesian Theater 01:04:39 The Role of the Hippocampus 01:08:03 The Connection Between the Hippocampus and Narrative 01:12:37 Understanding Cortical Gradients 01:14:44 The Complex Relationship Between Embodiment, Self-Modeling, and Consciousness Get full access to Wisdom Dojo at www.mahonmccann.com/subscribe