It is a pleasure to welcome the author of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness, Mark Solms.
In this episode, we share some terms like Markov Blankets, The Free Energy Principle, Homeostasis, Entropy and more. We also look at the neuroscience of innovation.
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00:00:00.076 Introduction: Exploring the Free Energy Principle
00:02:48.180 Feeling as an Equation: The Reduction of Homeostasis
00:05:09.567 Reduction of Homeostasis to an Equation by Carl Friston
00:07:40.434 The Link Between Mathematics, Physics, and Feelings: Homeostasis
00:10:06.472 Living Things Resisting the Second Law of Thermodynamics
00:12:31.153 The Imperative of Maintaining Organization and Viability
00:15:08.612 Homeostasis and the Role of Predictability
00:17:41.544 Learning from Experience and Updating Predictive Models
00:20:17.696 The Free Energy Principle and Reducing Predictive Errors
00:22:33.207 Understanding Free Energy as Wasted Informational Energy
00:24:41.590 The Fundamental Law of Psychology and Psychiatry
00:34:02.646 Self-organization in Nature: Ants and Bees
00:40:03.648 The Importance of Boundaries and the Markov Blanket
00:43:30.274 Feeling as the Driving Force of Learning