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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Jun 12

Account indefinitely suspended due to lack of engagement. Still posting on the other site.

Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Jun 12

Article: "Noise as a diagnostic tool: Distinguishing System/Device Effects in Multimodal Neuroimaging"

Coauthors: Erik D. Fagerholm, Hirokazu Tanaka, Gregory Scott, Robert Leech, Frederico E. Turkheimer, Peter Zeidman, Milan Brazdil

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OSF

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Jun 9

Comments on "Micah's New Law of Thermodynamics"

Presenter: Micah Blumberg

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[Comments start at 1:15:20]

https://youtu.be/fy_Jmr8adhI?si=3apmFLu72xNLoVKT&t=4520

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Jun 8

Interview: "The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience, and Artificial Intelligence"

Host: Ryan Anderson

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxKr...

#72 Prof. Karl Friston - The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience & Artificial Intelligence

YouTube video by AWONDERJUNKIE

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Jun 7

Chapter: "Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity"

Coauthors: Frederik Van de Steen, Peter Zeidman, Dimitris A. Pinotsis, Guy Nagels, Daniele Marinazzo

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Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity

This chapter is about modeling brain responses and estimating effective connectivity using functional neuroimaging techniques. It also introduces dynamic causal models. These models allow us to infer ...

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Jun 6

Article: "Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference"

Coauthors: Victor Casamayor Pujol, Boris Sedlak, Tommaso Salvatori, Schahram Dustdar

arxiv.org/abs/2505.24618

Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference

The Computing Continuum (CC) is an emerging Internet-based computing paradigm that spans from local Internet of Things sensors and constrained edge devices to large-scale cloud data centers. Its goal ...

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Jun 5

Article: "AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models"

First author: Conor Heins

arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784

AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models

Current deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches achieve state-of-the-art performance in various domains, but struggle with data efficiency compared to human learning, which leverages core priors ...

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Jun 2

Article: "Neural mechanisms of disease pathology and cognition in young-onset Alzheimer's disease variants"

First author: Seda Sacu

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 30

Article: "Adaptive consolidation of active inference: excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms for organizing feedforward and feedback memory systems in sleep"

Coauthors: Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu

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Validate User

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 30

AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social @noumenal-labs.bsky.social

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AMA, May 2025 - Karl Friston - "In simple terms, what is the FEP?"

YouTube video by Noumenal Labs

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 30

Article: "Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle"

Coauthor: @tspisak.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749

Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle

Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 30

Lecture: "The Physics of Sentience"

Host: Deep RL Course

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https://www.youtube.com/live/-F2XYrh6afs?si=CWgJP72YWG6o5zmp&t=620

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 23

Interview: "Healing and the Nature of Self"

Host: New Thinking Allowed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziD2...

Healing and the Nature of Self with Karl Friston

YouTube video by New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 15

Inaugural Monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything): May 30, 12:30pm EST

Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social for @noumenal-labs.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3O3...

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 13

Article: "The Functional Anatomy of Nociception: Effective Connectivity in Chronic Pain and Placebo Response"

Coauthors: Sanjeev Nara, Marwan N. Baliki, Dipanjan Ray

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 12

Article: "Neurophysiological progression in Alzheimer's disease: insights from dynamic causal modelling of longitudinal magnetoencephalography"

First author: Amirhossein Jafarian

www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/811324...

Neurophysiological progression in Alzheimer's disease: insights from dynamic causal modelling of longitudinal magnetoencephalography

Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, are characterised by selective neuronal vulnerability with regional, laminar, cellular and neurotransmitter specificity. The regional losses ...

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 11

Article: "A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment"

Coauthors: Melissa Reneaux, Helen Mayberg, Dimitris A. Pinotsis

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Frontiers | A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 11

Article: "Priors and proprioceptive predictions"

Coauthors: Thomas Parr, @mjdramstead.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Priors and proprioceptive predictions

This review presents an approach to motor control inspired by the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis. The core idea is that, to realise a motor plan, one ne…

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · May 8

Article: "The meltdown pathway: A multidisciplinary account of autistic meltdowns"

Coauthors: Paul A. Soden, Anjali Bhat, Adam K. Anderson

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APA PsycNet

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Apr 29

Article: "An active inference explanation of discriminatory cognition with regard to social attitudes and harmful behaviour."

Coauthors: Héctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker

www.researchgate.net/profile/Hect...

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Apr 24

Article: "How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience"

Coauthors: @chrisfields38.bsky.social, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer, @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Adam Safron

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How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience

Abstract. This paper examines the constraints that the free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models of attent

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Apr 24

Article: "Resilience Phenotypes Derived from an Active Inference Account of Allostasis"

Coauthors: Laura A. Harrison, Antonio A. Gracias,
J. Galen Buckwalter

www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...