Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle - Tasshin
This post will explain the basic ideas of Active Inference, Predictive Processing, and the Free Energy principle—and share basic, hand-wavey suggestions about how these frames apply to ideas we are both interested in.
Co-Authored with Xiq I (Tasshin) first met Xiq in Portugal in the summer of 2021. We met up in Porto several times with some mutual friends. I was instantly enamored with Xiq’s curiosity, and felt a lot of resonance with him as a friend and peer. When he made his diagram —a map of high-level interdependence of things that seem relevant in the path from human experience to human flourishing in deep time I was immediately fascinated—and overwhelmed. How did all these ideas fit together? I invited Xiq to come on my podcast to explain his diagram. He patiently explained it to me from top to bottom
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