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Karl Friston

Professor of Neuroscience · University College London

London, UKWebsite

Research Areas

NeuroscienceComputational ModelingFree Energy Principle

About

Neuroscientist who developed the free energy principle and active inference framework, providing a unified theory of brain function.

Publications

  • The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?

Related Guides

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)

Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.

Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)

The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.

Attention Schema Theory (AST)

Michael Graziano's theory that consciousness is the brain's simplified model of its own attention process.

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