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#87 - Colin Deyoung & Adam Safron - Integrating CB5T and The Free Energy Principle
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#87 - Colin Deyoung & Adam Safron - Integrating CB5T and The Free Energy Principle

Possibly deepest conversation I've ever recorded

Sup wisdom-seekers,

New podcast with Colin Deyoung & Adam Safron on their integration of Cybernetic Big five Personality theory and the Active Inference Framework to model persons for therapeutic purposes and possibly the creation of better AI.

Colin Deyoung is a personality psychologist, personality neuroscientist, the creator of the Cybernetic Big Five Personality theory and the associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, and a former student of Jordan Peterson.

Adam Safron, Ph. D., is a Cognitive Scientist and psychologist who studies the nature of preferences and motivation from mechanistic, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives. Recently, he has proposed a model of embodied agency and free will and is working on a unified mechanistic account of psychedelics.

Check out their paper!!!

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/653wp

Watch the full conversation 👇

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Cybernetics and the Free Energy Principle

11:07 The Big Five Theory in Personality Psychology

14:24 Integrating Cybernetics and the Free Energy Principle

21:08 The Motivation for Integrating Cybernetics and Personality Psychology

22:57 Personality Traits as Control Parameters in Cybernetic Systems

27:21 The Contextual Nature of Personality Traits

30:34 The Relationship Between Personality Traits and World Models

35:59 The Interplay Between Stability and Plasticity in Personality Traits

40:42 Relevance Realization and Personality Traits

43:07 The Role of Personality Traits in Solving the Frame Problem

47:13 Inactivism and Computationalism

51:20 The Role of Representation

54:41 Embodiment and Extended Cognition

59:02 Examining the Homunculus and Cartesian Theater

01:04:39 The Role of the Hippocampus

01:08:03 The Connection Between the Hippocampus and Narrative

01:12:37 Understanding Cortical Gradients

01:14:44 The Complex Relationship Between Embodiment, Self-Modeling, and Consciousness

Very best,

Mahon.

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