Karl Friston on the Perils of Investigations into Consciousness, Derealization, and the Free Energy Principle

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M This podcast may be the most important one on this channel. Sponsors: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off. For Algo's podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ and website https://www.algo.com/.  Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED: -Part 1 with Karl Friston (technical): https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKA TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Exigent Message / Introduction 00:07:25 The Free Energy Principle's TOE explained 00:15:48 The FEP explained for physicists 00:18:24 The "external world" is dual to "you" 00:24:25 Relationship between senses and actions 00:36:25 Marginal likelihood / Model evidencing 00:54:34 Change your evidence or change your model (Repression vs. CBT) 00:58:51 An exercise to show a difference in consciousness via touching one's eye 01:03:09 Science "works" by definition of "works"! 01:12:45 Advice for those trying to understand reality 01:22:45 Dealing with derealization / spiraling mentally / depersonalization 01:34:34 Don't let the social status of having "ego death" be your lure 01:37:12 Acceptance therapy (ACT from CBT) 01:43:09 Being too much in one's head (thought loops) 01:53:09 How does Karl prevent existential crises when studying these issues? 01:56:34 The benefits of tea and smoking (yes, smoking) 01:59:28 Beta-blockers and fear extinction (Merel Kindt's groundbreaking work) * * * Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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