Sean Carroll

Mindscape 132 | Michael Levin on Information, Form, Growth, and the Self

Mindscape 131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously

Mindscape 130 | Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics

Mindscape 129 | Solo: Democracy in America

Mindscape 128 | Joseph Henrich on the Weirdness of the West

Mindscape Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe

Mindscape 127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | December 2020

Mindscape 126 | David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy

Mindscape 125 | David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida

Mindscape 124 | Solo: How Time Travel Could and Should Work -- TRAILER

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | November 2020

Mindscape 123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain

Mindscape 122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain

Mindscape 87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy

In this episode of the Mindscape podcast, host Sean Carroll interviews neuroscientist Karl Friston about the free energy principle, a theory of how the brain works. Friston explains that the brain is constantly trying to minimize surprise by creating a model of the world and updating its beliefs using Bayesian inferenc...