Karl Friston on the FEP, cognition, life, agency, enactivism | Thing in itself w/ Ashar Khan

Karl Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist at University College London, authority on brain imaging, and proponent of the free energy principle. 0:00 intro 3:07 predictive processing, active inference, free energy principle 21:47 defining life 32:00 4E cognition, radical enactivism and affordances 37:29 evolution 45:39 identity and the self 57:39 politics 1:13:32 metacognition 1:18:47 hard problem and meta problem 1:29:18 extended cognition 1:34:44 theory and application Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (2022) Personal Website: https://www.asharkhan.ca/ Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0dUBLTl... Google: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Amazon: https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/9c6c...