#1066 Karl Friston: The Free Energy Principle, Culture, 4E Cognition, and Physics
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Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a return guest, Dr. Carl Freeston. Last time we talked a lot about the free energy principle, and today we're going to talk about how a free energy principle framework applies to culture. the relationship between the free energy principle and embodied cognition and more generally for e cognition and some other related topic. So, Dr. Freeston, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you one. It's a pleasure to be back. Thank you for inviting me. So let's start by talking here a little bit about culture. So So how or h how would you say a free energy principle framework
applies to culture. I mean how do you approach culture through that framework? The most obvious way would be to Apply the free energy principle. Uh two Cultural niche construction.
So by by which I mean Acknowledging. That not only are we Trying to fit our environments. But by acting upon them.
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