Carl Friston

Mentioned in 5 analyzed podcast episodes across 5 shows

Appears On

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens Making Sense with Sam Harris Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Episode Appearances

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens · May 27, 2026

Darkness Deficit Disorder: How Constant Stimulation Has Shaped our Consumption with Andrew Holecek

“Referenced for free energy principles and predictive coding framework relevant to understanding dark retreat effects”

Dark Retreat Practice and MethodologyDarkness Deficit Disorder and Light PollutionNon-Dual Philosophy and Consciousness

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Making Sense with Sam Harris · May 12, 2026

#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

“Proposed evolutionary explanation for consciousness: enables navigation of complex social environments through theory of mind”

Hard Problem of ConsciousnessNeural Correlates of ConsciousnessPsychedelic-Assisted Therapy

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Apr 1, 2026

Michael Pollan Returns (on consciousness)

“Developer of free energy principle explaining how organisms resist entropy through consciousness”

Consciousness definition and the hard problem of subjective experienceEvolution of consciousness and theory of mind in social primatesPlant sentience and neurobiology of plants

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Feb 9, 2026

343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought

“Neuroscientist whose free energy principle discussed as alternative framework for understanding brain optimization”

Bayesian Inference and Probabilistic ReasoningFormal Logic and Mathematical Foundations of ThoughtNeural Networks and Deep Learning Architecture

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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) · Jan 23, 2026

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

“Neuroscientist who developed the free energy principle; childhood observation of wood lice inspired decades of work on unified theory of behavior”

Free Energy Principle and neuroscience reductionismBrain metaphors and technological determinism in scienceFallacy of misplaced concreteness in AI and neuroscience

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