Michael Levin, Karl Friston | Why This Moment Contains Both Past And Future | Feb. 14, 2025

Source: Curt Jaimungal youtube, thoughtforms.life, fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl



Description:

Curt Jaimungal is joined by Michael Levin and Karl Friston. This conversation incorporates insights from physics and information theory, particularly regarding self-organization and the significance of entropy and free energy.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
3:43 The Free Energy Principle Explained
5:41 Creativity and Adaptive Utilization
11:56 In-Painting vs. Out-Painting
15:33 The Unreliable Medium of Biology
20:05 Aging: Noise or Psychological?
25:25 The Nature of Selfhood
45:10 Distinctions in Organic and Psychological Disease
48:54 Goal-Directed Systems and Aging
52:32 The Dynamics of Life and Death
55:49 Continuous Self in a Changing Form
1:01:35 The Constructive Nature of Science
1:08:02 Inferring Actions and Counterfactuals
1:11:40 Closing Thoughts and Future Conversations
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