
A New Science of Orientation with Inês Hipólito, PhD | Ep 9
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Inês Hipólito, PhD is a researcher in the interdisciplinary fields of philosophy of mind and complexity. Her research focuses on exploring the complex and reciprocal interactions between psychological behavior and the nervous system, body, and environment. She is a lecturer at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Inês is an Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Talent Grant Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, where she is studying the emergence of artificial intelligence as Augmented Cognition.
Selected chapters found in this episode:
- From Turing Machines to Active Inference
- Boundaries are set by the Observer
- Perception: How We Sense the World
- Predictive Coding - Brains are Not Passive Processors
- Why Orientation is the Schwerpunkt According to Neuroscience
- Cristiano Ronaldo and Skillful Performance
- Flow: Emptiness of the Mind or Mushin is Key
- Flow: Being Attuned with the External Environment
- Adaptation: Niche Construction and The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
- Minimize Surprise: The Ultimate Goal
- Counterfactuals, COAs, and The Free Energy Principle
- Stuck State: Unhealthy Patterns of Thinking
- Psychedelics, Destruction and Creation, Ego
- Organizational Change, Destruction and Creation, Ego
- The Problem with Closed Systems
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Inês Hipólito, PhD
Twitter: @ineshipolito
REBUS
Entropic Brain Hypothesis
The Free Energy Principle
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
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