In this episode, hosts Tim and Keith finally realize their long-held dream of sitting down with their hero, the brilliant neuroscientist Professor Karl Friston. The conversation is a fascinating and mind-bending journey into Professor Friston's life's work, the Free Energy Principle, and what it reveals about life, int

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Karl Friston, a pioneering neuroscientist behind the free energy principle, joins Curt Jaimungal to discuss how this theory reshapes our understanding of brain function, Markov blankets, and the physics of perception. The conversation also examines temporal scales and the broader implications for reality.- 00:00 - Intr

Karl Friston and Anna Lembke argue that we must urgently reassess personal and societal habits amid environmental, mental‑health, and addiction crises, using the active inference framework. They explore how this perspective can guide more resilient and compassionate responses.SPONSORS:- Patreon: https://patreon.com/cur

Karl Friston, Joscha Bach, and Curt Jaimungal explore death, AI models of the brain, God, and the nature of consciousness. They debate self‑organization, overlapping realities, and the future of substrate‑agnostic intelligence.- 00:00:00 - Introduction- 00:01:47 - New paper discussion- 00:09:13 - Sentience vs conscious

This week my guest is professor of neuroscience at University College London, Karl Friston. Viewed by many as one of the world’s most influential neuroscientists, Friston rose to prominence when he pioneered one of the key techniques that allows neuroscientists to analyze brain activity. And as if that wasn’t enough, h