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The Dissenter · 2026-10-08 · 80 min · 10,426 words

#1316 Casper Hesp: Active Inference, Affect, Culture, and Phenomenology

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Kasper Has. He's a PHD candidate in social computational neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. His research aims to model and understand how social life develops in individuals and over generations. And going from an understanding of the emotional basis of social life to modelling culture and today we're going to explore topics feelings and moods, the emotional basis of social life.

Кур еволюці, актив інференс пенілогії сама. related topic so Casper welcome to the show it's a big pleasure to everyone. Thank you. Yeah. So before we get into really specific topic of your work, I would like to start by asking you about basically the approach you have in your work, the sort of framework you bring into it.

So what is active Inference. Exactly. Very fundamental question. Um

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