Free Energy Principle - Serious Science

The video is a part of the project British Scientists produced in collaboration between Serious Science and the British Council. The Free Energy Principle originally emerged from systems neurosciences as a principled way of understanding what the brain does and how it does it. Subsequently, the principles proved to be so simple and powerful that they have been applied in a variety of contexts. So one could almost regard the free energy principle as an organizing principle for any living system that shows the characteristics of life. So, the reason I start like that is that there are two roads to explaining or understanding the free energy principle. You can either start from the perspective of people like Helmholtz in the 19th century trying to understand unconscious inference in the brain and build a story through analysis, synthesis, and psychology through to current and exciting developments in machine learning – things like Geoffrey Hinton’s Helmholtz machine. And then how that has

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