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)
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I'd like any of the countless interviewers to actually push Karl on the thrust of the hard problem - why can't all the hierarchical planning and Inference go on in the dark? Why is there an associated conscious experience? It obviously has great utility but would like it to be spelled out clearly within the active inference framework. This has serious implications for the nature and design of AI.